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Bard Graduate Center is an advanced graduate research institute in New York City dedicated to the cultural histories of the material world. Our MA and PhD degree programs, Gallery exhibitions, research initiatives, scholarly publications and public programs explore new ways of thinking about decorative arts, design history, and material culture.

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Publications

Bard Graduate Center publishes award-winning exhibition catalogues, books, and journals focusing on scholarship in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture.

Contemporary Artists
Publications
Barbara Nessim
An Artful Life


Publications
Waterweavers
A Chronicle of Rivers

Publications
Sheila Hicks
Weaving as Metaphor

Publications
Richard Tuttle
What Is the Object?
BGCX
Publications
Ritual and Capital
BGCX
2020

Publications
What is Research?
BGCX
2021

Publications
What is Conservation?
BGCX
2023

This book is an unconventional introduction to the topic of conservation, understood in its broadest sense and with an eye toward its greatest significance. The conversations threaded together in What is Conservation? took place over three nights in spring 2022 and accompanied Conserving Active Matter, an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery New York, and the book and web publications of the same name. The photographs in this volume are drawn from that exhibition.


What is Conservation?
includes conversations with MacArthur Fellows: professor of bioengineering, electrical & system engineering, physics and astronomy, neurology, and psychiatry Dani S. Bassett, poet and translator Peter Cole, interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson, poet Campbell McGrath, professor of computation and behavioral science Sendhil Mullainathan, documentarian Stanley Nelson, author and artist Lauren Redniss, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro, professor emeritus of astronomy David Spergel, entomologist Marla Spivak, silversmith Ubaldo Vitali, and professor of comparative literature and literary theory Emily Wilson.
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