Tracing Lace Story Tour

The Bard Graduate Center Gallery produces multiple exhibitions and publications each year, serving as a vital center of learning and a catalyst for engagement in the interrelated disciplines of decorative arts, design, and material culture. The gallery is celebrated in the museum world for its longstanding legacy of landmark projects dedicated to significant—yet often understudied—figures and movements in the history of decorative arts and design; these exhibitions and publications typically represent the definitive intervention on the artists and objects they investigate. BGC Gallery is also committed to generating and supporting a vast range of diverse presentations, small and large, that challenge traditional approaches to object inquiry; these examinations of material culture explore the human experience as manifest in our creation and use of “things” of all kinds. Whether originating in internal research and expertise, or in collaboration with external subject specialists, these endeavors prioritize rigorous scholarship while seeking to adhere to the field’s highest standards in production and design.

Photo by Maria Baranova.

Bring your device and headphones to discover imaginative short stories and original music hidden throughout the Threads of Power exhibition, written and performed by James Harrison Monaco and Janani Balasubramanian.

Visit the Threads of Power online exhibition page to listen to the Story Tour.

Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen is on view in the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from September 16, 2022–January 1, 2023. Purchase tickets.

James Harrison Monaco tells stories with music. He considers this one of the oldest art forms in the world, and he’s always looking for new and innovative ways to do it. He’s obsessed with stories of travel, immigration, translation, quiet violence, quiet grace, global loneliness, and time. He’s also a translator (Spanish and Italian), a music composer, and he writes fiction and non-fiction. His works have been presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center (where he is a New Writer in Residence), MASS MoCA, and many others. He is one half of the music-storytelling duo Jerome & James.

Janani Balasubramanian is a multimedia artist, working across installation, image, live and immersive performance, emerging media, poetry, and prose. Janani’s practice aims to bring insights from contemporary science into useable, playful, divine, and mythic places in everyday life. Janani is an artist-in-residence in the brown dwarf astrophysics group at the American Museum of Natural History; 2021-2022 Pew Foundation grantee through the Academy of Natural Sciences; 2021–2022 Collider fellow at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; 2021 NYFA Fellow in Fiction; 2021–2022 Sundance Institute Art of Practice Fellow; and member of the Guild of Future Architects.

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