Bard Graduate Center is a graduate research institute in New York City. Our MA and PhD degree programs, Gallery exhibitions, research initiatives, and public programs explore new ways of thinking about decorative arts, design history, and material culture.
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Upcoming Exhibitions
A View from the Jeweler’s Bench … Jan Tschichold and the New Typography … The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and … February 14 – July 7, 2019
Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Zeev Weiss
Research / Academic
February 26, 2019
February 26, 2019
Race Work Made Material: An…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Anna S. Agbe-Davies
Research / Academic
February 27, 2019
February 27, 2019
Curator’s Spotlight Tour with Paul Stirton
Jan Tschichold and the New…
Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Zeev Weiss
Research / Academic
March 5, 2019
March 5, 2019
Curator’s Spotlight Tour with Sasha Nixon
A View from the Jeweler’s…
Thinking as Thinging
A Process Archaeology of Mind
Lambros Malafouris
Research / Academic
March 19, 2019
March 19, 2019
Symposium—The New Typography
Graphic Design in Weimar Germany 1919–1933
Research / Academic
March 22, 2019
March 22, 2019
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: Materials Science
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Research / Academic
March 28–29, 2019
March 28–29, 2019
Public Education Course: Highlights in…
The Wiener Werkstätte
Glass House Horror: Modernism’s Haunted Landscapes
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Sandy Isenstadt
Research / Academic
April 2, 2019
April 2, 2019
Public Education Course: Highlights in…
The Bauhaus
The Colored Museum
Notes on Africana Identity, Power,…
Charles F. Peterson
Research / Academic
April 9, 2019
April 9, 2019
Public Education Course: Highlights in…
Politics and Culture in Latin American Graphic Design
Decorating Soldiers: Black Manhood, Citizenship,…
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Laurie A. Wilkie
Research / Academic
April 16, 2019
April 16, 2019
Public Education Course: Highlights in…
American Corporations and Countercultures: Postwar Graphic Design
Object
Events
Symposium—Bali and Beyond
Culture, Power, and Indonesian Textiles
Research / Academic
February 26, 2018
February 26, 2018
Research Forum
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Events
Symposium—Early Codices
Production, Destruction, and Modern Conservation
Research / Academic
February 23, 2018
February 23, 2018
