Research Institute

Publication, in print and online, is a major part of the BGC’s intellectual project. Since its foundation in 1983,  the BGC has published exhibition catalogues, and a learned journal. Thirty-two catalogues have been published, twenty-six of them with Yale University Press (since 1996). The journal Studies in the Decorative Arts was published from 1993 to 2009. It is being replaced in 2011, with West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture. The BGC is also inaugurating a new book-length publication series with University of Michigan Press, Cultural Histories of the Material World. The series will be edited at the BGC and published by University of Michigan Press in book and online formats.