Research at the Bard Graduate Center means the pursuit of interesting questions, not just of the right answers. Our entire building is a library making clear that there we see no real division between teaching and research. All our classes meet as seminars, with the goal for both faculty and students being the production of new kinds of knowledge, new kinds of interpretations. Our digital media lab, for example, represents the idea that new media and rigorous scholarship are perfectly consistent.

The BGC also sponsors an acclaimed weekly Seminar Series which brings interesting and important scholars and scholarship from around, and an audience from around the city, to our building on West 86th Street. Symposia, conversations, working lunches—all these contribute to making the BGC a learning community.

Research also includes publication. West86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, which is published by University of Chicago Press, is edited at the BGC. Focus Gallery exhibitions are edited at the BGC, and distributed by Yale University Press. The BGC’s new book series, Cultural Histories of the Material World, is published by the University of Michigan Press.