About
Upcoming Exhibitions
BGC Gallery will resume its exhibition programming this September with the return of Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today, originally slated for fall 2024.
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.

About
28th Annual Iris Foundation Awards
Honoring Irene Roosevelt Aitken, Dr. Julius Bryant, Dr. Meredith Martin, and Katherine Purcell
Events
Wednesdays @ BGC
Join us this spring for weekly programming!





Research

Bard Graduate Center is a research institute for advanced, interdisciplinary study of diverse material worlds. We support the innovative scholarship of our faculty and students as well as resident fellows, guest curators and artists, and visiting speakers.

Photo by Fresco Arts Team.

Our Public Humanities + Research department focuses on making scholarly work widely available and accessible through the coordination of the fellowship program and public programming that combines academic research with exhibition-related events. Across the institution—from the classroom to the gallery, from publications to this website—we utilize digital media to facilitate and share original research. This section outlines current programming and provides a repository for past scholarly content.


The volumes in this series explore the ways human beings have shaped and interpreted the material world from the perspectives of archaeology, anthropology, art and design history, economic, cultural, and landscape history, history of science and technology, and philosophy. These volumes will self-consciously explore general issues about material evidence, as well as show how attention to materiality can contribute to a more precise historical understanding of specific times, places, ways, and means.

Read Daniel Lee’s essay on “Cultural Histories of the Material World”.


Series Editor
Peter N. Miller (Bard Graduate Center)

Contact and Submissions
For more information, please contact:
Daniel Lee
Director of Publishing

Bard Graduate Center
38 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024
T 212 501 3049
F 212 501 3092
E lee@bgc.bard.edu


New Release
Laura Leibman, The Art of the Jewish Family




Coming Attractions

Mariët Westermann on The Museum in the Cultural Sciences: Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture in the Twentieth Century, Edited by Peter N. Miller (Spring 2021)



Hanna B. Hölling on Object—Event—Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s (Spring 2021)



Nathan Schlanger on André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology, Evolution, and Social Life: a Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s (Fall 2021)

Items in this Collection
Publications
Ex Voto
Votive Giving Across Cultures

Publications
In Space We Read Time
On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics

Publications
The Anthropology of Expeditions
Travel, Visualities, Afterlives

Publications
The Sea
Thalassography and Historiography


Publications
The Technical Image
A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery

Publications
Ways of Making and Knowing
The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge

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