Bard College announced Thursday that it has received a commitment for $50 million to be used as a permanent endowment for The Center for Curatorial Studies. CCS Bard, located on the Annandale campus, Â is the first institution of its kind in the United States dedicated exclusively to curatorial studies, an interdisciplinary field exploring the historical, intellectual, and social conditions that inform contemporary art exhibition-making and practice. It specializes in art since 1950.
Bard received $25 million from the Marieluise Hessel Foundation and a matching commitment of $25 million from George Soros as part of Bard College’s transformational billion-dollar endowment drive.
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