Justin Davidson thinks Frank Gehry’s new performing arts center at Bard College looks “vaguely mammalian, a mound of muscled curves – slick and powerful like a sea lion, but also armored, robotic. Gehry has built a bionic bunny crouching at the edge of a field.” So how does it sound? “Fill the grape-colored stage with musicians, and they will make more sound than an audience can absorb. And yet, perhaps, that’s just the sort of surplus a small, arts-oriented school like Bard should have. There’s something terribly attractive about the notion of a house so full of music that notes try to bust through concrete walls.”