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Artist, alumna, and Bard MFA faculty Amy Sillman launched her first museum survey this year. Now the exhibition catalogue is one of the best art books of 2013.

Matana Roberts's new album, Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile, is "Family history as social history in a swirling mix of free jazz, opera and spoken word. Challenging yet ultimately beautiful."

Bard MFA graduate and visual artist Sadie Laska discusses her "deliriously frenetic abstract paintings."

Matana Roberts discusses her well-reviewed new album, the importance of listening to the sounds of the city, and why she still busks.

MFA music/sound faculty member, musician, and sound ecologist David Dunn is featured in the November 2013 issue of The Wire.

Canadian and Omaskêko Cree artist and Bard alumnus Duane Linklater MFA '13 has won the nation's Sobey Art Award for contemporary artists under the age of 40.

Artist Amy Sillman is both a graduate and faculty member of Bard's MFA program. Her first museum retrospective, one lump or two, opens Thursday at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.

Sara Wintz's first full-length collection of poetry, Walking Across A Field We Are Focused On At This Time Now, "takes the twentieth century and gives it a new haircut," writes Claire Wilcox.

Brooklyn-based composer and guitarist Zach Layton is playing improvised concerts with a live insect chorus—including crickets and hissing cockroaches.

Miya Masaoka, a member of the music/sound MFA faculty in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, has won a 2013 Doris Duke Artist Award for her work in jazz and multidisciplinary performance.

New York–based artist John Jurayj's exhibition What's Left is on view at the Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles through May 25.

Alumnus and ICP-Bard faculty member Joshua Lutz '97, MFA '05 (ICP) blends fact and fiction in his new photography book and solo show Hesitating Beauty.

Alumnus César Alvarez MFA '09 and his band The Lisps have created an original rock musical called Futurity, the story of a Union soldier in the Civil War who is an aspiring inventor.

Two graduates of the Bard MFA program, Carrie Moyer MFA '02 in Painting and Chris Sollars MFA '07 in Sculpture, have been announced as 2013 Guggenheim Fellows.

Roberta Smith for the New York Times calls the paintings of recent Bard graduate Lucy Dodd MFA '12 "as wry as they are beautiful."