College News

Alexandra Bell Analyzing Race and Gender Bias Amid All the News That’s Fit to Print

The New York Times profiled artist Alexandra Bell for her Counternarratives project–now on view on buildings around the campus–which features supersized New York Times articles edited to reveal biases and assumptions about race and gender.

Isabel Roche “Our Students Are True Change Makers”

Bennington provost and dean Isabel Roche was the subject of a Q&A in HigherEdJobs about what makes the College—and its students, faculty, and alumni—stand out in the landscape of higher education.

cover of threat bennington review issue three Praise for "Threat"

NewPages.com glowingly reviewed issue three of Bennington Review, calling it "an incredibly strong issue put forth by an excellent journal."

The Bennington Sprays The Nourishing Relationship of Olitski and Caro

A recent exhibition of works by two former faculty members and iconic figures in contemporary art—sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and painter Jules Olitski—"offers a capsule vision of the relationship of the two artists" during their formative years together at Bennington, one critic writes.

Crossett Library “The Best Undergraduate Library of Its Size In The Country”

The National Trust of Historic Preservation included Bennington’s Crossett Library on its list of Six Midcentury Modern Campus Buildings You Need to Visit.”