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Bard’s New Museum

Bard College opens a new 17,000-square-foot museum on its Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, campus.

-- Interior Design, 12/1/2006 7:37:00 AM

The only exhibition space on Bard College’s campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, used to be a 9,500-square-foot gallery. But on November 12, the college’s new Hessel Museum of Art will open and nearly double the size of that gallery. Designed by Geottsch Partners, the 17,000-square-foot facility will be an extension of the school’s Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard), and will house the Marieluise Hessel Collection—one of the most prestigious contemporary art collections in the country.

The terra-cotta and glass structure will feature two large central galleries, encircled by a series of medium-sized rooms. The facility will also feature two permanent commissions: a walkway designed by Lawrence Weiner and a large-scale installation by Do-Ho Suh. In addition to the special commissions and the Hessel Collection, the school plans to present three exhibitions a year at the museum.

The Marieluise Hessel Collection, a permanent loan to the museum, consists of more than 1,700 works from such esteemed artists as Louise Bourgeois, Thomas Hirschhorn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Signmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Kara Walker, and Cindy Sherman. Some of these works will be exhibited in the museum’s inaugural show, “Wrestle.”