Bard College is a small liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, on a sprawling 600 acre (2.4 km²) campus overlooking the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains.
Professors include such luminaries as Joan Retallack, Joanne Akalaitis, John Ashbery, Chinua Achebe, Joan Tower, Luc Sante, Robert Kelly, Adolphas Mekas (brother of Jonas Mekas), Stephen Shore, James Chace, and Thurman Barker, among others. Former professors of note include philosophers Heinrich Blücher and Alfred Jules Ayer, writers Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison, Albert Jay Nock, and Andre Aciman. The college's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts was designed by acclaimed architect Frank Gehry, and was completed in the spring of 2003. Leon Botstein has been the President of the college since 1975, and is generally credited with reviving its academic and cultural prestige.
Blücher and his wife Hannah Arendt are buried in the Bard Cemetery, and a portion of Arendt's personal library resides in Bard's Stevenson Library. |
