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BGC Gallery will resume its exhibition programming this September with the return of Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today, originally slated for fall 2024.
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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28th Annual Iris Foundation Awards
Honoring Irene Roosevelt Aitken, Dr. Julius Bryant, Dr. Meredith Martin, and Katherine Purcell
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Department of Research Collections

BGC Affiliates

The library is open to BGC students, faculty, and staff during these hours:

Monday–Thursday: 8 am–10:45 pm 
Friday–Sunday: 8 am–9:45 pm

Outside Visitors

Outside visitors to the library must have a confirmed appointment during staffed hours. 

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The BGC Department of Research Collections comprises the Library, Study Collection, and Archive, representing a comprehensive range of diverse research resources across a range of media in support of the advanced scholarly study of material culture. Bringing these three entities together aligns the institution’s collection with its approach to research, which challenges traditional boundaries, centers the object, and emphasizes interdisciplinarity. To learn more about each facet of the DRC, click on the links below.

The Blue Mountain Project’s database contains fully searchable issues of important European avant-garde periodicals from Princeton’s collections.

From the Blue Mountain Project’s website- “The Blue Mountain Project is the common work of scholars, librarians, curators, and digital humanities researchers whose mission is to create a freely available digital repository of important, rare, and fragile texts that both chronicle and embody the emergence of cultural modernity in the West.”

The rare publications included in the database (such as La cité, Der Sturm, Surréalisme, East & West and Dada, to name a few) cover art, architecture, music and literary periodicals published between 1848 and 1923.

Blue Mountain Project offers high quality color images and full text search capabilities. To search this database, along with our other resources, see our databases page here.