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CANCELED—Enchanting Surfaces
Objects, Gender, and Ink Painting
A conversation with Peng Wei
April 2, 2025
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Late 19th-Century French Poupées & Bébés
A Françoise and George Selz…
April 9, 2025
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The Post-Jewish Object
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April 10, 2025
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Klismos
The revival of ancient Greek…
A lecture by George Manginis (Benaki Museum)
April 16, 2025
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Unpacking the Choiseul Box
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April 22, 2025
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28th Annual Iris Foundation Awards
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April 23, 2025
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Magical Objects and the Gothic…
The Lee B. Anderson Memorial…
April 23, 2025
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Exploring Denis Williams’s Works on Paper
A lecture by Felicia Mings…
April 30, 2025
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Realgar Glass
Learning from the Archive, the…
A lecture by Julie Bellemare (BGC PhD ’21; The Corning Museum of Glass)
May 13, 2025
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Bard Graduate Center publishes award-winning exhibition catalogues, books, and journals focusing on scholarship in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture.

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Sèvres Extraordinaire!
Gallery Publications
2024
Cultural Histories of the Material World
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Ex Voto
Votive Giving Across Cultures
Cultural Histories of the Material World
2015
Publications
The Art of the Jewish Family
A History of Women in…
Cultural Histories of the Material World
2020
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The Museum in the Cultural Sciences
Cultural Histories of the Material World
2021
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Conserving Active Matter
Cultural Histories of the Material World
2022
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Object—Event— Performance
Art, Materiality, and Continuity Since the 1960s
Cultural Histories of the Material World
2022
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In Space We Read Time
On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
Cultural Histories of the Material World
2016
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The Anthropology of Expeditions
Travel, Visualities, Afterlives
Cultural Histories of the Material World
2015
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Ways of Making and Knowing
The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge
Cultural Histories of the Material World
2014
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Cultural Histories of the Material World
Cultural Histories of the Material World
2013
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The Sea
Thalassography and Historiography
Cultural Histories of the Material World
2013
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Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China
Cultural Histories of the Material World
2012
Contemporary Artists
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Barbara Nessim
An Artful Life
Gallery Publications
2013
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Revisions—Zen for Film
Focus Project Publications, Gallery Publications
2015
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Waterweavers
A Chronicle of Rivers
Gallery Publications
2014
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Sheila Hicks
Weaving as Metaphor
Gallery Publications
2006
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Richard Tuttle
What Is the Object?
Gallery Publications
2022
BGCX
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Ritual and Capital
BGCX
2020
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What is Research?
BGCX
2021
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What is Conservation?
BGCX
2023
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New York Crystal Palace 1853
Focus Project Publications, Digital Publications
2017

This digital publication accompanies the exhibition, New York Crystal Palace 1853, on view at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from March 24 to July 30, 2017. It is an exploration of the Crystal Palace through ten essays, including an introduction, with an online catalogue of the exhibition.

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Support for the New York Crystal Palace 1853 digital publication is generously provided by The Henry Luce Foundation and other donors.




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