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.
Blue Willow in the Clouds
The Architectural Reuse of British…
A lecture by Heeryoon Shin (Bard College)
March 4, 2026
Gothic Aryan
Viollet-le-Duc and the Museums of the Trocadéro
A lecture by Risham Majeed (Ithaca College)
March 18, 2026
Indigenizing Fashion in the Colonial Andes
A lecture by Laura Beltrán-Rubio (independent researcher)
March 25, 2026
Digital Technologies and Archaeological Reclamation
A lecture by Edward González-Tennant (Texas State University)
April 8, 2026
An Anti-Slavery Treatise from Medieval Iraq
A lecture by Kristina Richardson (University of Virginia)
April 15, 2026
Skeletons in the Drawing Room
The Production and Popular Consumption…
A Françoise and Georges Selz Lecture on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture by Jessica M. Dandona (Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
April 22, 2026
French Ornament in the Nineteenth Century
Nature, Life, and Form
A lecture duet by Ralph Ghoche (Barnard College) and Estelle Thibault (École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Belleville), moderated by Martin Bressani (McGill University)
April 29, 2026
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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
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