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.
Join us for a morning of presentations by leading international historians, curators, and architects who are currently investigating Eileen Gray’s highly versatile career. Better known as a furniture designer, Gray actually worked in multiple fields. This symposium will elucidate the range of her architectural projects, her pioneering role as a Parisian gallerist and as an artisan of lacquer, among other topics. It will illuminate the fascinating Parisian milieu of artists, writers, architects, and craftspeople who helped to shape Gray’s groundbreaking ideas on modernism in design and architecture.

9:30 am

Peter N. Miller
Bard Graduate Center
Welcome
Nina Stritzler-Levine
Bard Graduate Center
Introduction


9:40 am

Cloé Pitiot
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Eileen Gray: Crossing Borders



10 am

Jennifer Goff
National Museum of Ireland
From the Atlas Mountains to the rue Visconti: Eileen Gray, Rug Designer



10:20 am

Frances Spalding
University of Cambridge
“Mysterious Uncertainty”: Eileen Gray’s Works on Paper


10:40 am

Coffee Break


11 am

Caroline Constant
University of Michigan
Eileen Gray: Unfinished Stories


11:20 am

Renaud Barrès
Council for Architecture, Urbanism, and the Environment of the French Department of Hérault
E 1027 Maison en bord de mer: A total Work of Art by Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici


11:40 am

Irma Boom
Book Maker, Amsterdam
On the Book


12 pm

Q&A/Discussion