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Multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim was born deaf, and she uses sound in her work to challenge and disturb the norms of the hearing world.

Actor Robert De Niro has named R.H. Quaytman as the winner of the Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, which is given to an artist "devoted to the pursuit of excellence and innovation in painting."

Work by several Bard alumnae and faculty members will be featured in the Whitney Biennial this spring. Bard alumnae include Celeste Dupuy Spencer (Studio Arts), Dani Leventhal MFA '10 (Film/Video), Carrie Moyer MFA '02 (Painting), and Leila Weinraub (MFA). Faculty artists include Susan Cianciolo (MFA visiting artist in Painting), Kevin Everson (MFA Film/Video faculty), An-My Lê (Photography), Ulrike Müller (MFA Painting cochair), and Cauleen Smith (MFA Film/Video faculty).  

Shaver's Dress the Form is an installation of wall-size fabrics, furniture, and found objects arranged with "skill and aplomb." On view through August 19.

MFA writing professor Hoa Nguyen's poems "Ode to Second Chances (Late February)" and "O Prosperity" are featured in Hyperallergic's monthly poetry series.

The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts will present its Class of 2017 thesis exhibition July 16–23 at the Bard College Exhibition Center (UBS Gallery) at 29 O’Callaghan Lane in Red Hook, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 16 from 1 to 4 p.m.

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation has unveiled its biennial list of 2015 grantees. Among them are two Bard MFA faculty members, Pam Lins and A. L. Steiner, and three MFA alumni/ae: Jared Buckhiester '13, Rochelle Goldberg '15, and Kelly Kaczynski '03. More on Arforum

Saxophonist and sound artist Matana Roberts has received a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award, which carries an unrestricted grant of $275,000.

Long Soldier is noted by the award committee for her "trenchant, beautiful ... writing about the relationship between official political speech and literature’s capacity to write back."

Caitlin Keogh is now being represented by Chelsea gallery Bortolami. Her work can be found in the well-received group exhibition “Flatlands” at the Whitney Museum of Art.

Bard MFA alumna Robin Coste Lewis discusses her book Voyage of the Sable Venus, which won the National Book Award last year.