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.
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29th Annual Iris Foundation Awards
Honoring William and Ellen Taubman, John Guy, Matthew Yokobosky, and Sylvie Lhermite-King
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
The Great Exhibition in Art
London’s First World’s Fair, 1851
A lecture by Julius Bryant (Victoria and Albert Museum)
April 21, 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
Staging Fashion
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture by Matthew Yokobosky (Brooklyn Museum)
April 28, 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
Gothic vs. Modern
Letterforms and Graphic Design in Weimar Germany
A lecture by Paul Stirton (Bard Graduate Center)
May 5, 2026
