Starting on Friday, July 24 at the 2026 Bard Summerscape festival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents a rare, grand-scale new production of Richard Strauss's epic, seldom-staged 1928 opera, The ...

Leon Botstein announced on Friday that he is stepping down as the longtime president of Bard College amid scrutiny over his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Botstein wrote in ...

The longtime president of Bard College announced his retirement Friday, months after it was revealed that he had a much deeper relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than was ...

Bard College President Leon Botstein will retire at the end of June after 51 years leading that prestigious New York liberal arts school. Bostein's announcement came a day after the WilmerHale law ...

Bard College President Leon Botstein announced his retirement Friday following fallout over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Botstein, who has led the private liberal arts college ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — Leon Botstein, the longtime leader of Bard College, announced Friday afternoon that he was stepping down as president following an internal legal review of his relationship with ...

The president, Leon Botstein, who had run Bard for 50 years, faced scrutiny over his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. By Vimal Patel The president of Bard College, who has run the unorthodox ...

As a highlight of the 2026 Bard Summerscape festival, the Fisher Center at Bard will present a new production of Richard Strauss’s The Egyptian Helen (Die ägyptische Helena). The opera will run for ...

To Bard College senior Owen Denker, Leon Botstein is an imperial president. “Botstein is a figure on this campus that has ultimate power. He is often likened to a king by faculty that can wave his ...

Bard College has opened an “independent review” into President Leon Botstein’s connection to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Board of Trustees announced Thursday. While Botstein’s links to ...

The president of Bard College invited Jeffrey Epstein to visit its prestigious New York City high schools and sent him chummy messages about the author of the novel “Lolita” — after the notorious ...

“Mr. Epstein was not my friend; he was a prospective donor.” That’s how Bard College President Leon Botstein framed his relationship with the convicted sex offender in a letter to the campus community ...