"The most important thing about art is it is the most powerful protection against a sense of boredom. And boredom, ultimately, is the most terrifying and most dangerous human experience."
Daniel Medina | Posted 03.20.2012
With stubbornly high unemployment, a failing education system and mounting federal debt, has Dr. King's dream truly been realized in 2012?
Hellin Kay | Posted 03.05.2012
Documentary film is one of the most undervalued of all art forms. But thanks I guess partly to "reality TV" people seem to have rediscovered it in the mainstream.
Posted 10.16.2011
Interested in discussing the merits of John Kerry in the dining hall? Princeton Review recently named the schools with the most liberal students i...
AP | By MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 09.30.2011
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. -- Written during World War II when the composer was in his 70s and never performed in his lifetime, Richard Strauss's "Die ...
C. M. Rubin | Posted 09.25.2011
Let us speak of even greater things with the innovative educator and president of Bard College, Leon Botstein: a man who understands the juxtaposition of art and education better than any.
The Huffington Post | Lindsay Dittman | Posted 09.06.2011
Sure, they say that the modern generation is bereft of radicals. That the youth of today are wishy-washy. We beg to differ. From ultraliberal hippie ...
PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 08.31.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- This is one anniversary few feel like celebrating. Two years after economists say the Great Recession ended, the recovery has be...
Taliesin Gilkes-Bower | Posted 05.25.2011
So, you graduate from a small liberal arts school with five-figure debt and want to work in the arts?
Michael Roth | Posted 05.25.2011
Although as a university president I spent much of my time in meetings, my colleagues tell me that I'm happiest just after I come back from the classroom.
chicagotribune.com | Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
HUNTER, N.Y. -- Authorities have released the name of the 19-year-old college student from Illinois who died in a fall from a cliff while hiking in th...
John Seed | Posted 04.11.2012
One of the values she seems to have absorbed from Cezanne is that there is an inherent abstract order to be gleaned from nature.
Hellin Kay | Posted 05.25.2011
Sadly the art of book selling is slowly on the decline.
Posted 05.25.2011
Bard College President, American Symphony Orchestra Conductor, public intellectual and bow-tie aficionado Leon Botstein paid a visit to Stephen Colber...
Posted 05.25.2011
Forget Paris. Some colleges are taking the concept of educational globalization to heart. According to Newsweek, more and more college students are ch...
Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011
The Bard Music Festival now makes up the last two weekends of the seven-week SummerScape festival, and is SummerScape's centerpiece and guiding spirit.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Not many people can fulfill their passion - and build an institution - for fifty years. Susan Wadsworth can. The founder of the Young Concert Artist...
Michael McCarty | Posted 05.25.2011
I call Chef Kyung at Michael's New York to see if the first of the Dutch white asparagus has shown up. They have, an awesome sign that spring is here.
Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011
I started thinking about where I wanted to go to college before I graduated middle school. I kept a Fiske Guide next to my bed, dog-eared into near ob...
AP | CARRIE ANTLFINGER | Posted 05.25.2011
MILWAUKEE — Andy Warhol kept boxes upon boxes of soup cans, receipts, fan mail and many other items, including thousands of photos he later used...
Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011
Every summer, when Chandrika Gaipai returns home, she describes a rugby ball to her mother. "It looks like a dinosaur's egg," she says.
The New York Public Library | Posted 04.29.2012