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A program of two relative rarities, 'Henri VIII' and 'Sir John in Love,' brought earnest and infectious enthusiasm to the Summerscape stage.

Leon Botstein leading The Orchestra Now, accompanied by projections based on William Blake’s “The Book of Job,” at the Bard Music Festival, which is dedicated…

On the American Dream, the English imagination, a Saint-Saëns opera, “America’s only newspaper” & more from the world of culture.

Saint-Saëns’s 1883 work is seldom performed today, but it is being well staged and excitingly sung at Bard College.

And how the university has yet to give a full accounting.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision declaring affirmative action in school admissions unconstitutional dismantles years of work to achieve educational parity, critics said.

On a recent Saturday night, a group of young people were gathered in this bucolic hamlet in the Hudson Valley, building a campfire of sorts. There wer

ANNANDALE-ON HUDSON — Bard College has been awarded two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for the Fisher Center’s presentation of Henri VIII by composer Camille Saint-Saëns,

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyFor more than a decade, Jeffrey Epstein’s status as a Level 3 sex offender didn’t preclude him from wining and dining an array of billionaires, heads of state, princes and princesses, entrepreneurs, and celebrities at his glitzy Manhattan townhouse and mansions around the world.After his prison stint in Florida, Epstein also courted another kind of royalty: Tim and Nina Zagat, the powerhouse New York couple behind the ep...

Relationship between disgraced financier and small liberal arts school highlights need for gift-acceptance policies