WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke painted an upbeat picture on Saturday for the potential of innovation to l...
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, will give Bard College's commencement address on May 25, the s...
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. -- Sergey Taneyev's opera "Oresteia" is being given its first fully staged American production at this summer's Bard SummerS...
"The Beat Generation," as Kerouac defined them so early on, has maintained a fascinating hold on popular culture, even though during their heyday they were mocked by the mainstream.
At the age of 30, having deliberately stepped away from acting and show business for five years to figure out what she wanted to do, Gaby Hoffman has decided that acting is a choice she wants to make for herself.
Just up the Hudson River settled in the awe-inspiring Hudson Valley, Bard's annual SummerScape festival will kick off on July 6. SummerScape takes up...
"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."
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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...
Bard College President, American Symphony Orchestra Conductor, public intellectual and bow-tie aficionado Leon Botstein paid a visit to Stephen Colber...
Forget Paris. Some colleges are taking the concept of educational globalization to heart. According to Newsweek, more and more college students are ch...
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.
Not many people can fulfill their passion - and build an institution - for fifty years. Susan Wadsworth can. The founder of the Young Concert Artist...