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BGC Gallery reopens this September with the return of Sèvres Extraordinaire: Sculpture from 1740 until Today, originally slated for fall 2024.

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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.



This digital interactive provides two paths to explore Nam June Paik’s Zen for Film. The first highlights a selected history of the artwork’s presentation and documentation and provides information on the artist and Fluxus. The second explores a number of related artworks that can be viewed as potential inspirations, antecedents, and contemporaries. The artworks are linked and can be filtered by conceptual associations—boredom, chance, materiality, nothingness, silence, time, trace—that correspond to a viewer’s experience of Zen for Film.


This project was featured in the Zen for Film exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery September 18, 2015–February 21, 2016.
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This digital interactive is integral to the exhibition Revisions–Zen for Film, at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, September 17, 2015–January 10, 2016, which was developed during a two-year research, teaching, and curatorial project supported by an Andrew W. Mellon “Cultures of Conservation” Fellowship.