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Professor Christian Crouch.
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Christian Crouch, Dean of Graduate Studies at Bard College
Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of History and American and Indigenous Studies Christian Ayne Crouch has been teaching at Bard since 2014. Her work focuses on the histories of the early modern Atlantic, comparative slavery, American material culture, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. She holds a PhD and an MA with distinction in Atlantic history from New York University, and an AB cum laude in history from Princeton University.
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Lara Fresko Madra Published in the Los Angeles Review of Books
“[These] photographs variously juxtapose scenes of deterioration, overgrowth, development, and progress,” Madra writes.
Lara Fresko Madra Published in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Professor Lara Fresko Madra.
The Center for Curatorial Studies is an intensive course of study in the history of contemporary art, criticism, and exhibition making. The graduate program provides extensive practical experience in exhibition-making within a professional museum setting. The faculty include curators, scholars, writers, art historians, and other professionals committed to innovation in the arts.
Post Date: 12-02-2025
Essay by Drew Thompson Featured in PhotoBook Awards by Paris Photo and Aperture
“The history of photobooks looks different from the vantage point of the African continent,” Thompson writes.
Essay by Drew Thompson Featured in PhotoBook Awards by Paris Photo and Aperture
Drew Thompson, associate professor at the Bard Graduate Center.
The Bard Graduate Center is devoted to the study of decorative arts, design history, and material culture through research, advanced degrees, exhibitions, publications, and events.
Post Date: 11-24-2025
The Orchestra Now Opens Its 2025–26 Season of Concerts in New York City with Sounds and Echoes of Empire at Carnegie Hall on October 13
The Orchestra Now (TŌN) launches its 11th season of New York City concerts led by Music Director Leon Botstein with Sounds and Echoes of Empire, on October 13, at Carnegie Hall. The program features both neglected and more familiar Eastern European works from the late-19th and early-20th centuries that reflect the nationalism of the Russian Empire. The first of two performances at Carnegie Hall this season, the concert will initially be performed at the Fisher Center at Bard on October 11–12 and livestreamed on TŌNtube.
The Orchestra Now Opens Its 2025–26 Season of Concerts in New York City with Sounds and Echoes of Empire at Carnegie Hall on October 13
Leon Botstein Conducts The Orchestra Now at Carnegie Hall. Photo by David DeNee
Performance Pairs Rarely-Heard Works by Čiurlionis, Kaprálová, and Lyatoshynsky with Pieces by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky
The Orchestra Now (TŌN) launches its 11th season of New York City concerts led by Music Director Leon Botstein with Sounds and Echoes of Empire, on October 13, at Carnegie Hall. The program features both neglected and more familiar Eastern European works from the late-19th and early-20th centuries that reflect the nationalism of the Russian Empire. The first of two performances at Carnegie Hall this season, the concert will initially be performed at the Fisher Center at Bard on October 11-12 and livestreamed on TŌNtube.
TŌN will next perform a FREE concert in Manhattan featuring Strauss’s beloved tone poem Don Juan and works by Vaughan Williams, Henry Purcell, and Samuel Barber led by Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman at Peter Norton Symphony Space on November 23.
For detailed information about the 2025-26 season, visit ton.bard.edu.
Sounds and Echoes of Empire
Monday, October 13, 2025, at 7 pm
Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
The Orchestra Now
Leon Botstein, conductor
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture on Russian Themes in D Major, Op. 28
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis: In the Forest (Miške)
Vítězslava Kaprálová: Military Sinfonietta, Op. 11 (Vojenská Symfonieta)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Festival Coronation March, TH 50
Boris Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 50
The evening presents familiar pieces like Rimsky-Korsakov’s Overture on Russian Themes and Tchaikovsky’s grand Festival Coronation March, written to celebrate the coronation of Alexander III, alongside lesser-known works from the same time period. The symphonic poem In the Forest, by Lithuanian composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, was among his earliest musical successes. The Military Sinfonietta of Vítězslava Kaprálová brought international exposure when the work received the prestigious Smetana Foundation award. Boris Lyatoshynsky’s Third Symphony was premiered in his native Ukraine in 1951, but was later revised after being banned by Soviet authorities. TŌN performs the original version in this concert.
Tickets, priced at $29-$50, are available at carnegiehall.org, by calling CarnegieCharge at 212.247.7800, or at the Carnegie Hall box office at 57th & 7th Avenue.
Post Date: 09-18-2025