Bard College News

Adapted from a speech given by Carlos Fuentes in May 1988 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Troy Simon was pedaling Magazine Street, tap shoes on his back, heading to the French Quarter where he knew he could make as much as $100 a day.

Commencement speaker Ronan Farrow, 24 years old, received an honorary doctorate of humanities degree at Dominican University on Saturday.

Four seniors from east bank public high schools are recipients of full scholarships from the New Orleans chapter of the Posse Foundation.

Nathan Sadowsky, 15, is a student at Metropolitan Learning Center in Northwest Portland.

Ronan Farrow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues and the son of actress Mia Farrow, will deliver Dominican UniversityOs commencement speech on Saturday.

Katja Novitskova and Timur Si-Qin,A Installation view at the Center for Curatorial Studies: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY I'm going to imagine a time in which post-internet megabucks are really rolling in, and I'm equipped with a private Rhizome Vistajet .

Performance artist Marina Abramovic plans to build a $15 million centre in upstate New York devoted to the research and production of duration-based works of art lasting from six hours to several days.

As I have previously announced , the theme of this summer's Bard Music Festival at Bard SummerScape 2012 will be Saint-Saens and His World ; and the final event in this series will be a concert performance of the full-length opera Henry VIII , which Saint-Saens composed between 1881 and 1882 and which remained in the repertoire of the Paris Opera ... (more)

Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced rapper who made the Beastie Boys one of the seminal groups in hip-hop, has died.

Jill BC Du Boff, a new faculty member at the Broadway Sound Master Classes , has had her designs on two Broadway plays this year, Wit and Other Desert Cities .

As we continue the hard work of building a better future for our youth, it is important to take time to recognize the large and small successes that transpire in our schools every day.