Events
27th Annual Iris Foundation Awards
Honoring Marilyn Friedland, Diana Scarisbrick,…
April 3, 2024
Research
Activation and Deactivation:
Zero: Countdown to Tomorrow at the Guggenheim
Cultures of Conservation Blog
October 16, 2014
October 16, 2014
Events
A Ducal Inventory in Sixteenth-Century Portugal:
From the Caribbean to China
November 10, 2010
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Adult Workshop: Make Your Own JUMPSUIT
Conducted by Rational Dress Society
September 21, 2019
Events
A Dutch Mystic in the New World
Reverend Everardus Bogardus (1607-1647) and His Callings
January 1, 2014
Research
Alexis Hagadorn, “Unbinding Conservation: Observations…
Cultures of Conservation Blog
November 15, 2014
November 15, 2014
Events
Alumni Spotlight Lecture—Keep the Research on Your Right
Teaching, Writing, and Curating as Tributaries
March 21, 2017
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Americana Redux
Materializing Multiculturalism during the United States Bicentennial
March 18, 2019
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An Archive of the Beautiful Game
Football (Soccer) Jerseys and the Stories They Tell
December 4, 2024
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Ancien, Nouveau et Antique
Display and Connoisseurship in a Princely Ceramics Collection
February 28, 2019
Research
Ancien, Nouveau et Antique
Display and Connoisseurship in a Princely Ceramics Collection
February 28, 2019
Events
And One King to Rule Them All?
Investigating Religious and Political Landscapes…
January 30, 2017
Research
A Passion for Gems
Research
Approaches to Traditional Polychrome Stone…
Conservation at the Cloisters
Cultures of Conservation Blog
September 29, 2014
September 29, 2014
Research
Archaeological Science in Museum Collections
Re-examining Ethnological Materials and Ethnographic Accounts
November 13, 2017
Events
Archaeological Science in Museum Collections
Re-examining Ethnological Materials and Ethnographic Accounts
November 13, 2017
Research
Architectural Walking Tour with Molly Garfinkel:
Places that Matter
Cultures of Conservation Blog
March 8, 2014
March 8, 2014
Events
Architecture, Art, and Liturgical Space in Postwar America
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
March 17, 2015
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“Are we getting closer? Are we there yet?”
Mapping the Spaces of Poetic Inquiry
November 29, 2017
Research
“Are we getting closer? Are we there yet?”
Mapping the Spaces of Poetic Inquiry
November 29, 2017
Events
Art in the Time of a Pandemic
Disability Cultures, Creativity, and Consciousness
May 15, 2021
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Artist Conversation
Installations by Bard Graduate Center Library Visiting Artists
August 7, 2019
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Artist Conversation
Installations by Bard Graduate Center Library Visiting Artists
August 16, 2018
Events
Artistic Skills and the Hierarchy…
A Chinese Theme through Muslim and European Eyes
September 14, 2017
Events
A Stain on an All-American Brand
How Brooks Brothers Once Clothed Enslaved People
May 11, 2021
Research
A Stain on an All-American Brand
How Brooks Brothers Once Clothed Enslaved People
May 11, 2021
Events
Bard Graduate Center’s History of…
Week 3: Renaissance and the Early Modern Period
April 18, 2018
Events
Bauhaus Designers, Nazi Persecution, and the Missing Archive
Alice Glaser, Lotte Rothschild, and Richard Grune
November 13, 2024
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Beads and Buttons from Briare:…
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
April 29, 2014
Research
Beads and Buttons from Briare:…
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
April 29, 2014
Research
Between Bukh and Sefer: Holocaust…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
March 29, 2018
Research
Between Construction and Invention: Theories…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
November 15, 2016
Events
Between Construction and Invention: Theories…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
November 15, 2016
Events
Between Philosophy, History, Science, and Literature
Annotated Books from the Library of Otto Neurath
April 11, 2018
Events
Beyond the Renaissance Palace
The Material World of Sixteenth-Century Artisans and Shopkeepers
November 10, 2016
Events
BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation in the Gallery
Women Designers: Chanel, Lanvin, Boué…
October 10, 2019
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BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation in the Gallery
Breaking Ground: Architecture, Gender, Activism
March 5, 2020
Events
BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation in the Gallery
Fashion, War, Displacement, and Immigration
December 5, 2019
Events
Blackboards, Illustrations, and Models
The Materiality of Higher Education…
February 22, 2022
Research
Blue Chip Artists, Glassy Thinkers, and Boro Boys
Navigating Contemporary Glass
April 13, 2017
Research
“Bold Design and Bolder Ornaments”:…
The Majolica International Society Lecture
May 4, 2016
Events
Book Launch—History and Its Objects
Antiquarianism and Material Culture since 1500
June 6, 2017
Research
Book Launch — In Space We Read Time
On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
January 24, 2017
Events
Book Launch — In Space We Read Time
On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
January 24, 2017
Research
But She’s Wearing It Backwards
Understanding and Misunderstanding an Eighteenth-Century Mexican Court Gown
February 3, 2022
Events
But She’s Wearing It Backwards
Understanding and Misunderstanding an Eighteenth-Century Mexican Court Gown
February 3, 2022
Events
Cabinetmakers of German Origin in Eighteenth-Century Paris
A Chapter in European History…
October 9, 2017
Research
Cabinetmakers of German Origin in Eighteenth-Century Paris
A Chapter in European History…
October 9, 2017
Events
CANCELED—A Story in the Making
Creating Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists
April 15, 2020
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CANCELED—Between the Gallery and the Academy
Adventures in Art, Fashion, and Design
April 14, 2020
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CANCELED–BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation in the Gallery
Collaboration to Independence in the…
June 4, 2020
Events
CANCELED–BGC Late: Jazz & Conversation in the Gallery
Black Art and Activism in Early-20th-Century Paris
May 7, 2020
Events
CANCELED—Fashioning Race Through Metalwork in French Sugar Casters
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
March 17, 2020
Events
CANCELED—Gray’s Metal Furniture with Christopher Wilk
Spotlight on Eileen Gray’s Materials
March 18, 2020
Events
CANCELED—Inside Paris’s Churches: Rethinking France’s Religious Enlightenment
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
March 3, 2020
Events
CANCELED—Lichtenberg’s Knife: A Few Reflections on Conservation
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
April 19, 2022
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CANCELED—Marked in Clay: Interdisciplinary Methods…
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
March 31, 2020
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CANCELED—“Of a Remarkably Down-Cast Countenance,…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
November 13, 2018
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CANCELED—Refresh-Reset-Reformat
Reclaiming and Celebrating Diné/Navajo Aesthetics:…
May 6, 2021
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CANCELED—Spotlight on Eileen Gray’s Materials: Architecture
A Gallery Tour Series
April 15, 2020
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CANCELED—The Art of Living: Blackness and Spatial Matters
Contemporary Reflections Series
March 28, 2020
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CANCELED–The Art of Living: Designing Social/Cultural Spaces
Contemporary Reflection Series
June 11, 2020
Events
CANCELED—The Art of Living: Queer Histories in Architecture
Contemporary Reflection Series
April 9, 2020
Events
CANCELED—The Museum as a “School of Things”
Objects and Their Pedagogical Promise since Comenius
April 28, 2020
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Cardboard and Dada: Sonia Delaunay’s Costume Design
A lecture and demonstration by…
February 28, 2024
Research
Carnegie, Capital, and the Kaiser
An Intellectual History of Financing Scholarship
December 6, 2017
Events
Carnegie, Capital, and the Kaiser
An Intellectual History of Financing Scholarship
December 6, 2017
Events
Case Study in Collaboration:
Conserving Thousands of Lost Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
April 24, 2014
Events
Changing Attitudes Towards Power and Palaces:
Architecture Between Umayyad ‘Desert…
October 28, 2009
Research
Charles Cordier: A Hero of Polychromy
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
January 29, 2019
Events
Charles Perrault Before the Fairy Tales
Seventeenth-Century Authorship, Material and Textual
February 20, 2019
Research
China and France in the Intercultural Eighteenth Century
A Françoise and Georges Selz…
April 19, 2023
Events
China and France in the Intercultural Eighteenth Century
A Françoise and Georges Selz…
April 19, 2023
Events
Climate and Commodities
Material Exchanges between West Africa and Europe, 1000–1300
March 21, 2016
Research
Climate and Commodities
Material Exchanges between West Africa and Europe, 1000–1300
March 21, 2016
Events
Collaboration and Camaraderie
Pioneering Women in the Circle of Sonia Delaunay
April 19, 2024
Research
Collecting, Distributing and Preserving Video Art:
Electronic Arts Intermix
Cultures of Conservation Blog
April 3, 2015
April 3, 2015
Research
Collecting, Presenting, and Conserving a ‘Living Art’
The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection
Cultures of Conservation Blog
March 20, 2014
March 20, 2014
Events
Conservation Conversation
“Knowledge in the Making: Reconstructing…
March 3, 2015 – February 21, 2017
Research
“Conservation Conversation” Addresses Fashion
Cultures of Conservation Blog
November 20, 2013
November 20, 2013
Events
Conservation Conversation—A Multiplicity of Voices
The Structure of Preservation at…
March 15, 2016
Research
“Conserving Active Matter”
The Next 5 Years of…
Cultures of Conservation Blog
December 1, 2017
December 1, 2017
Research
Conserving Active Matter: Indigenous Ontologies
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
April 18, 2018
Events
Conserving Active Matter: Indigenous Ontologies
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
April 18, 2018
Research
“Conserving Active Matter”: Indigenous Ontologies,…
Cultures of Conservation Blog
December 11, 2017
December 11, 2017
Research
“Conserving Active Matter”: Introduction, History, Philosophy Sessions Recap
Cultures of Conservation Blog
December 7, 2017
December 7, 2017
Research
Conserving Indigenous Objects and Cultures
Seminar Series: Conservation Conversations
February 25, 2015
Research
Conserving Relics of the Classical Past
Civic Bodies and the Preservation…
February 12, 2014
Research
Conserving Robots, TV’s, and Technology-Based…
Cultures of Conservation Blog
October 8, 2014
October 8, 2014
Events
Conversation and Collaboration:
Strategies to Cultivate Meaningful Engagement with Cultural Audiences
February 22, 2012
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Cosmopolitan Cosmetics:
Shiseido and Early 20th Century Japanese Advertising Design
April 21, 2010
Events
Cotsen Textile Traces Global Roundtable
Lacing Around the World and Across Time
October 12–13, 2022
Research
Craft, Embodied Knowledge, and Learning through the Hands
Dr. Stephanie Bunn
January 20, 2022
Research
Crafting Cosmopolitanism in Tang China (618–907)
BuYun Chen Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College
October 15, 2019
Events
Cripping Things in Late Nineteenth-Century Art
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture…
April 25, 2023
Research
Cripping Things in Late Nineteenth-Century Art
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture…
April 25, 2023
Research
Cultures of Conservation
Events
Cultures of Conservation “Keyword” Panel
Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, and Conceptual Art
February 23, 2016
Research
Cultures of Conservation “Keyword” Panel
Digging into Central Park’s Layered Past
November 1, 2016
Events
Cultures of Conservation “Keyword” Panel
Digging into Central Park’s Layered Past
November 1, 2016
Events
Curator’s Spotlight Tour with Ittai Weinryb
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects…
September 15, 2018
Events
Curator’s Spotlight Tour with Ittai Weinryb
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects…
October 26, 2018
Events
Curator’s Spotlight Tour with Ittai Weinryb
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects…
November 25, 2018
Events
Curator’s Spotlight Tour with Maude Bass-Krueger
French Fashion, Women and the First World War
October 16, 2019
Events
Curator’s Spotlight Tour with Maude…
French Fashion, Women and the First World War
September 7, 2019
Research
David Bomford and Carlo Ginzburg
Seminar Series: Conservation Conversations
September 10, 2013
Research
David Bomford and Carlo Ginzburg Talk Connoisseurship
Cultures of Conservation Blog
September 11, 2013
September 11, 2013
Events
Decorating Soldiers: Black Manhood, Citizenship,…
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
April 16, 2019
Events
Designer’s Spotlight Tour
Drawing Conclusions: Designing the John Lockwood Kipling Exhibition
November 2, 2017
Research
Diagramming Intensities:
Instrument, Score, and Code in…
Cultures of Conservation Blog
April 8, 2014
April 8, 2014
Events
Diasporas of Art and ‘The Great Forgetting’
Violence and the Visual Unconscious…
April 27, 2016
Research
Donald Judd’s Lofty Installation at…
Specific Objects, Specific Conservation
April 21, 2015
Events
Do Objects have Ethnicities?: Race and Material Culture
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
October 20, 2010
Events
Drawing on the Past:
The Persistence of Ornament: Cloisonné in Contemporary Jewelry
March 11, 2011
Events
Drop-in Kids’ Workshop with U’mista Cultural Centre
Joins us for a crafter-noon!
February 20, 2019
Events
Eating Ice-Cream on the Streets of Naples:
Materiality and Ephemerality in the History of Food
October 11, 2012
Research
Enriching the V&A: A Collection of Collections (1862–1914)
The Lee B. Anderson Memorial…
March 2, 2023
Events
Enriching the V&A: A Collection of Collections (1862–1914)
The Lee B. Anderson Memorial…
March 2, 2023
Research
Esplendor y Lucimiento
Mirrors and Triumphal Language in Eighteenth-Century Quito
January 27, 2022
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Events
Esplendor y Lucimiento
Mirrors and Triumphal Language in Eighteenth-Century Quito
January 27, 2022
Research
European Ceramics In the Age…
Research
E. W. Godwin and Modernism
Research
Exoticizing in the Enlightenment
A Global History of Switzerland in Objects
February 19, 2018
Events
Exoticizing in the Enlightenment
A Global History of Switzerland in Objects
February 19, 2018
Research
Extreme Conservation Symposium Guest Post:
Matthew Siegal
Cultures of Conservation Blog
April 16, 2015
April 16, 2015
Research
Extreme Conservation Symposium Guest Post:
Friedemann Hellwig
Cultures of Conservation Blog
April 16, 2015
April 16, 2015
Research
Extreme Conservation Symposium Guest Post:
Stephen Rustow
Cultures of Conservation Blog
April 16, 2015
April 16, 2015
Research
Extreme Conservation Symposium Guest Post:
Matthew Battles
Cultures of Conservation Blog
April 16, 2015
April 16, 2015
Events
Figure/Ground: Curating Waterweavers
Jorge Lizarazo, Susana Mejía, José Roca, Gregory Volk
April 11, 2014
Research
Film, Memory and Cognition:
Visiting the Museum of the Moving Image
Cultures of Conservation Blog
May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014
Events
Forms of Distraction:
Towards a Decorative Imagination in Eighteenth-Century France
March 30, 2011
Research
Francesca Bewer and Laurent Olivier
Seminar Series: Conservation Conversations
February 11, 2014
Events
Francesco Mochi: Stone and Scale
Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture
November 30, 2011
Research
Franz Kugler and the Concept…
Events
Free Tours: Wednesdays in November
French Fashion, Women, and the First World War
November 6, 2019
Events
Friedman’s Pencil and Kant’s Tattoo:
Graphic Arts, Global Utopias, and the Acheiropoetic Social
April 10, 2013
Events
From Analogue to Digital:
Documenting the History of Computer-generated Art and Design
November 18, 2014
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Events
From Concrete to Filigree
Exploring Diasporic Identity through Material Culture
January 25, 2022
Events
From Legible Text to Magical Pattern
Arabic Inscriptions in Muslim and Christian Spain
March 5, 2014
Events
From Material to Digital:
New Directions in Material Culture and Museum Studies
September 24, 2015
Events
From the Inside Out! The…
Tehran Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture
February 14, 2012
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Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601) and His Library:
Book Collecting and the Republic…
October 27, 2010
Events
Gina Suuda Tl’l Xasii ~…
Documenting Convergence, Divergence, and Co-existence…
October 23, 2018
Research
Gina Suuda Tl’l Xasii ~…
Documenting Convergence, Divergence, and Co-existence…
October 23, 2018
Research
Giorgio Riello and Sarah Scaturro
Seminar Series: Conservation Conversations
November 12, 2013
Events
Giotto, Gold, and the Global Trecento
Transcultural Perspectives on the Fourteenth Century
November 20, 2018
Research
Giotto, Gold, and the Global Trecento
Transcultural Perspectives on the Fourteenth Century
November 20, 2018
Events
Glassblowing as Terraforming
Posthumanist Turns in Theories of Embodied Knowledge
September 25, 2024
Events
Glass House Horror: Modernism’s Haunted Landscapes
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
April 2, 2019
Research
Glass in the Context of…
Events
Global, Comparative, International, Transnational, and Connected Histories:
Is the Methodological Tail Wagging…
April 29, 2015
Research
Hanbok in Modern and Postmodern Times
Fashion, Counter-Fashion, and Anti-Fashion
March 28, 2017
Events
Hanbok in Modern and Postmodern Times
Fashion, Counter-Fashion, and Anti-Fashion
March 28, 2017
Events
Hero and Villain: Lafayette’s Legacies
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
November 27, 2012
Research
Historicism in Zsolnay Ceramics
Events
How America Met the Jews
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
March 22, 2018
Research
How America Met the Jews
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
March 22, 2018
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Events
How Can a Gathering of…
Experimenting with Reinhart Koselleck’s Material Estate
March 28, 2022
Events
How Jesus Celebrated Passover
Some Early Modern Readings of the Last Supper
September 7, 2011
Research
How Jesus Celebrated Passover
Some Early Modern Readings of the Last Supper
September 7, 2011
Research
Hyalomania: Early Modern Glass Research between the Disciplines
Vera Keller
October 19, 2021
Events
Hydraulic Engineering, Emperorship, and Ecology…
Evidence from the Visual Arts
March 10, 2010
Research
Implements Correspondingly Peculiar: Slavery, Plantation…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
October 19, 2011
Events
Implements Correspondingly Peculiar: Slavery, Plantation…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
October 19, 2011
Events
India Ink: Imagery of the…
Imagery of the Subcontinent in Sixteenth-Century Europe
January 23, 2013
Events
Indigenous Theories of Indigenous Arts in Transition
Art as Whakapapa (Genealogy) and Contemporary Taonga (Treasure)
February 22, 2022
Research
Indigenous Theories of Indigenous Arts in Transition
Art as Whakapapa (Genealogy) and Contemporary Taonga (Treasure)
February 22, 2022
Research
Inherent Vice
Mass Produced Fetish Gear and Synthetic Subversiveness Post-Abloh
Teen Scholars
February 4, 2020
February 4, 2020
Events
Interchanges, Workshop Dynamics and Material Matters:
The Case of Norman Palermo
December 4, 2014
Research
In the Field:
Paint Archaeology and Ceiling Conservation…
Cultures of Conservation Blog
February 10, 2014
February 10, 2014
Research
In the Field:
“Authenticity” at the Tenement Museum
Cultures of Conservation Blog
January 31, 2014
January 31, 2014
Events
“Intimately and Unquestionably Our Own”:
A Curator’s Perspective on An American Style
January 23, 2014
Events
Isabella d’Este’s Painted Service by Nicola d’Urbino:
From Creation to Display.
February 23, 2015
Research
Jewels with Cameos and Intaglios…
Research
Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
February 19, 2019
Events
Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
February 19, 2019
Research
Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
February 26, 2019
Events
Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
February 26, 2019
Research
Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
March 5, 2019
Events
Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
March 5, 2019
Research
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and Michelle Chesner
Seminar Series: Conservation Conversations
April 24, 2014
Research
Justice Ginsburg and Her Lace
A performance-laced conversation with Vanessa…
November 16, 2022
Events
Justice Ginsburg and Her Lace
A performance-laced conversation with Vanessa…
November 16, 2022
Research
Keep the Research on Your Right
Teaching, Writing, and Curating as Tributaries
March 21, 2017
Research
Kent and Italy
Research
Kent and the Gothic Revival
Research
Keynote Lecture—The Shock of the Old
Some Reflections on the Bauhaus at 100
October 17, 2019
Events
Khirbet al-Mafjar or Qasr Hisham?…
Tehran Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture
December 13, 2011
Research
Knoll Before Knoll Textiles, 1940–46
Research
Knowledge in the Making: Reconstructing…
Seminar Series: Conservation Conversations
March 3, 2015
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Research
Le Corbusier and the Gothic
Events
Legislating Space and Re-placing God:
Rabbinic Spatiality after the Destruction…
April 18, 2012
Events
“Let’s Mechanize the Donbass”
Images of Industry from a Contested Heartland
February 21, 2020
Events
Making Andean Houses
Materials, Affordances, and Possibilities in Vernacular Architecture
September 18, 2017
Events
Making Ornamental Africa: An Enlightenment Process
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
April 26, 2022
Research
Manhattan’s Rituals:
The Afterlives of Objects, Events and Performances
Cultures of Conservation Blog
February 21, 2014
February 21, 2014
Research
Marked in Clay: Interdisciplinary Methods…
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
April 27, 2021
Research
Memorializing the Dead in Manhattan:
Ephemeral Expressions of Love and Loss
Cultures of Conservation Blog
March 11, 2014
March 11, 2014
Events
Men of Labor and Leisure:
Defining Masculinity in Georgian Portraiture and Fashion
December 19, 2013
Research
Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, and Conceptual Art
Cultures of Conservation “Keyword” Panel
February 23, 2016
Events
Mistake or Transgression? A History of Scandalous Clothing
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
April 19, 2016
Research
Museum Display, an Algonquian Bow,…
Research
Netherlands Institute for Conservation Art and Science
An Integrated Approach Towards Understanding…
October 19, 2016
Events
Netherlands Institute for Conservation Art and Science
An Integrated Approach Towards Understanding…
October 19, 2016
Research
New Discoveries in American Majolica
The Majolica International Society Lecture
May 2, 2018
Research
Objects Speak:
Deciphering Moche Metalsmith’s Methods of Manufacture
Cultures of Conservation Blog
October 3, 2017
October 3, 2017
Events
Of Buddhas and Bowls
A lecture by Nachiket Chanchani (University of Michigan)
February 14, 2024
Events
Opening Reception
Installations by Bard Graduate Center Library Visiting Artists
August 1, 2018
Research
Our Lady of Mount Carmel:
Community Conservation and Devotion in Staten Island
Cultures of Conservation Blog
April 16, 2014
April 16, 2014
Events
Out of Whole Cloth
Exploring Balinese Textiles in the Mead-Bateson Collection
November 9, 2016
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Events
Parisian Dreams
German Migrants and Cabinetmaking in Eighteenth-Century Paris
October 2, 2024
Events
Paris—Potsdam—Paris: Gilt Bronzes ‘à la…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
February 12, 2013
Research
Parthian Art is Still a Problem
Henry Colburn, BGC Research Fellow 2021-2022
September 14, 2021
Events
Performance, Craft, and the Body
A presentation by Lauren Kalman (Wayne State University)
March 26, 2025
Research
Photographs, Daguerreotypes, and Prints: Collection…
Cultures of Conservation Blog
November 12, 2014
November 12, 2014
Events
Photography and the Surveillance of Blackness
Reflections by Simone Browne (University…
February 8, 2023
Research
Photography and the Surveillance of Blackness
Reflections by Simone Browne (University…
February 8, 2023
Research
Physics and Metaphysics: Materials Scientists,…
Cultures of Conservation Blog
December 4, 2017
December 4, 2017
Events
Polychromatic Pleasures
Decorating with Color in Nineteenth-Century France
December 3, 2013 – December 31, 1969
Research
Preserving the Craft of Lacemaking in Contemporary Fashion
A conversation with designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla
December 14, 2022
Events
Preserving the Craft of Lacemaking in Contemporary Fashion
A conversation with designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla
December 14, 2022
Events
Public Education Course: Highlights in…
Politics and Culture in Latin American Graphic Design
April 22, 2019
Events
Public Education Course: Highlights in…
American Corporations and Countercultures: Postwar Graphic Design
April 15, 2019
Events
Public Education Course: New Perspectives…
Fashion and Labor in Nineteenth Century France
October 28, 2019
Events
Public Education Course: New Perspectives…
Constructing Femininity: 1980–2000
November 4, 2019
Events
Public Opening of The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot:
Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking
September 21, 2012
Research
Quantifying Kissinger
Computational Analysis and Data Visualization in Historical Interpretation
November 15, 2017
Events
Quantifying Kissinger
Computational Analysis and Data Visualization in Historical Interpretation
November 15, 2017
Events
Ransom in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Exchanging Muslim for Christian Captives
December 1 – November 10, 2014
Events
Reading The Shape of Time, 60 Years Later
Four perspectives on the seminal…
November 30, 2022
Research
Reading The Shape of Time, 60 Years Later
Four perspectives on the seminal…
November 30, 2022
Research
Recreating the Seventeenth-Century Garden in Holland
Blending Nature and Design
October 3, 2018
Events
Recreating the Seventeenth-Century Garden in Holland
Blending Nature and Design
October 3, 2018
Events
Rediscovering Édouard Lièvre (1828–1886): A…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
November 14, 2017
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Events
Reinventing the Wheel: And Then Some
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
February 25, 2020
Research
Reinventing the Wheel: And Then Some
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
February 25, 2020
Events
Religiosity, Spirituality, Material Culture in Korea
Devotional Objects and Contemporary Variations
December 7–8, 2023
Events
Resistance, Not Psychological Damage: Re-Evaluating…
A lecture by Robin Bernstein…
October 12, 2022
Research
Resistance, Not Psychological Damage: Re-Evaluating…
A lecture by Robin Bernstein…
October 12, 2022
Events
Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity
Transcultural Processes on the Iberian…
November 18, 2019
Events
Rousseau’s, and Other Relics:
Material Memories in Later Eighteenth-Century Switzerland
February 20, 2013
Research
S1E7: Jaipreet Virdi—Disability Objects in the Archives
Fields of the Future
February 17, 2021
Research
S2E5: Porfirio Gutiérrez—Color as a Form of Storytelling
Fields of the Future Podcast
March 5, 2023
Events
Saturday Sessions—Designing Dining
Session III: Framing Food: Plates and Pictures
April 16, 2016 – January 24, 2017
Events
Saturday Sessions—Instruments Inside Out
Session III: In Time: Collaborative Sound
April 16, 2016 – January 24, 2017
Events
Seeing Through Touch, Touching with the Eyes
The Sensorial Construction of Rome…
December 5, 2019
Research
Semester in Review:
Damage, Decay, and Conservation
Cultures of Conservation Blog
December 21, 2016
December 21, 2016
Research
Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture
Lia Markey & Stephanie Porras
March 17, 2021
Research
Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds Online
A guided tour of the digital exhibition
May 1, 2023
Events
Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds Online
A guided tour of the digital exhibition
May 1, 2023
Research
Shelf Life Episode 15:
The Guts and Glory of Object Conservation
Cultures of Conservation Blog
April 25, 2017
April 25, 2017
Events
Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art
A conversation with Caroline Fowler…
February 13, 2025
Events
Spring Exhibitions Opening
Artek and the Aaltos: Frontier Shores
April 21, 2016 – January 24, 2017
Events
Symposium—Antiquarianism in the Islamic World
Sponsored by the Trehan Research…
May 9–10, 2019
Research
Symposium—Antiquarianism in the Islamic World
Sponsored by the Trehan Research…
May 9, 2019
Events
Symposium—Art and Ideology in the Twelfth-Century Western Mediterranean
Sponsored by the Trehan Research…
October 14, 2016
Events
Symposium—Beyond Representation
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things
September 27–29, 2012
Research
Symposium—Conservation Thinking in India
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
May 7, 2022
Events
Symposium—Conservation Thinking in India
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
May 7, 2022
Events
Symposium—Conservation Thinking in Japan
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
May 6, 2022
Research
Symposium—Conservation Thinking in Japan
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
May 6, 2022
Events
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: A Cultures…
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
November 27–28, 2017
Research
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: A Cultures…
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
November 27, 2017
Events
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: History
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
November 1, 2018
Research
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: History
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
November 1, 2018
Events
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: Materials Science
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
March 28–29, 2019
Research
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: Materials Science
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
March 28, 2019
Research
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: Philosophy—Degradation as…
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
November 8, 2019
Events
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: Philosophy—Degradation as…
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
November 8, 2019
Events
Symposium—Dutch New York Between East and West
The World of Margrieta van Varick
October 19, 2009
Research
Symposium—Exhibitions Research Teaching
The Bard Graduate Center at Twenty
November 13, 2013
Research
Symposium–Exhibitions Research Teaching
The Bard Graduate Center at Twenty
November 8, 2013
Research
Symposium—Khipus: Writing Histories In and From Knots
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
February 1, 2019
Events
Symposium—Khipus: Writing Histories In and From Knots
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
February 1, 2019
Events
Symposium—Objects and Power
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Medieval Islamic Material Culture
April 11, 2014
Events
Symposium—Playing with Modernism
Historical Perspectives on Children and Design
November 16, 2012
Events
Symposium—Re-Forming Modernism
Craft, Design, and Architecture at the Bauhaus
October 18, 2019
Research
Symposium—Re-Forming Modernism
Craft, Design, and Architecture at the Bauhaus
October 18, 2019
Events
Symposium—Revivalism in the Age of Modernism
Design Revivals in the Twentieth Century
November 9, 2018
Research
Symposium—Revivalism in the Age of Modernism
Design Revivals in the Twentieth Century
November 9, 2018
Events
Symposium—Upholsterers and Decorators in 19th Century France
Georges Hoentschel’s Predecessors
October 28, 2011
Events
Technology, Wondrous or Fatal
Seventy Years of Giedion’s Mechanization Takes Command
April 3, 2018
Research
Technology, Wondrous or Fatal
Seventy Years of Giedion’s Mechanization Takes Command
April 3, 2018
Research
Tenement Museum Walking Tour:
Storefront Stories
Cultures of Conservation Blog
December 13, 2014
December 13, 2014
Research
Test Zoom Function on Object
Research
Textiles in the Historic Interior
A Look at Curatorial, Conservation, and Interpretive Issues
November 30, 2016
Events
Textiles in the Historic Interior
A Look at Curatorial, Conservation, and Interpretive Issues
November 30, 2016
Events
The Actress as Artist’s Muse:
Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and Ellen Terry
February 9, 2012
Events
The Analysis of Organic Colorants in Art Objects
Case Studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
December 7, 2015
Research
The Analysis of Organic Colorants in Art Objects
Case Studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
December 7, 2015
Research
The Archaeology and History of Colonial Peru
The Case of Magdalena de Cao Viejo
February 23, 2017
Events
The Archaeology and History of Colonial Peru
The Case of Magdalena de Cao Viejo
February 23, 2017
Events
The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science
Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation
March 19, 2025
Research
The Art of the Jewish Family, Lecture 1
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
March 14, 2018
Events
The Art of the Jewish Family, Lecture 1
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
March 14, 2018
Events
The Art of the Jewish Family, Lecture 2
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
March 28, 2018
Research
The Art of the Jewish Family, Lecture 2
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
March 28, 2018
Research
The Art of the Jewish Family, Lecture 3
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
April 12, 2018
Events
The Art of the Jewish Family, Lecture 3
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
April 12, 2018
Research
The Challenge of the “Grand Siècle”
Research
The Conservation of Multimedia Works of Art
Cultures of Conservation Blog
November 11, 2013
November 11, 2013
Research
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Nina Dubin, Meredith Martin & Madeleine Viljoen
March 3, 2021
Events
The Invention of Connoisseurship
A lecture by Peter Burke (Emmanuel College Cambridge)
September 6, 2023
Events
The Limits and Possibilities of…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
March 15, 2018
Research
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum:
Materiality and Change
Cultures of Conservation Blog
September 24, 2014
September 24, 2014
Research
The Many Conservation Cultures:
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Cultures of Conservation Blog
November 25, 2013
November 25, 2013
Research
The Matter of Things: Material…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
February 5, 2020
Events
The Matter of Things: Material…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
February 5, 2020
Events
The Matter of Things: Material…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
February 12, 2020
Research
The Matter of Things: Material…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
February 12, 2020
Research
The Matter of Things: Material…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
February 19, 2020
Events
The Matter of Things: Material…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
February 19, 2020
Events
The New Chinese Museology:
Shifting Geographies of Power, Development, and Heritage
November 7, 2012
Research
The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Italy
A Short History and Some Current Issues
November 2, 2016
Events
The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Italy
A Short History and Some Current Issues
November 2, 2016
Research
Therapeutic Play: Caring, Giving, and Being with Dolls
A lecture by Emilie St-Hilaire…
November 9, 2022
Events
Therapeutic Play: Caring, Giving, and Being with Dolls
A lecture by Emilie St-Hilaire…
November 9, 2022
Events
The Rational Dress Society Presents…
Co-presented by Bard Graduate Center…
September 28, 2019
Research
The Revival of Cloisonné Enamel…
Research
There Will Never Be Silence:
Scores, Instructions, Notations and the…
Cultures of Conservation Blog
April 20, 2014
April 20, 2014
Events
The Timeless Thobe
Documenting Land, Heritage & Culture in Palestinian Dress
February 26, 2025
Events
Thinking About Cultural Heritage Now
The Work of the Penn Cultural Heritage Center
March 21, 2017
Research
Thinking About Cultural Heritage Now
The Work of the Penn Cultural Heritage Center
March 21, 2017
Events
Trajectories of Value in Pintupi Painting
An Incomplete History of an Aboriginal Painting Movement
October 14, 2009
Events
Twelfth-Century Architecture as Incipient Globalism:…
Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
April 8, 2014
Research
Two Bridges Walking Tour:
Supporting Cultural Differences Through the Commonality of Place
Cultures of Conservation Blog
October 29, 2014
October 29, 2014
Research
Type, Paper, Glass, and Screws
Reading Surfaces and the Materialities of Communication
March 12, 2018
Events
Type, Paper, Glass, and Screws
Reading Surfaces and the Materialities of Communication
March 12, 2018
Research
Uncanny Materiality: The Spoiled Trophies of Taxidermy
Symposium: Extreme Conservation
March 20, 2015
Research
Unexpected Trajectories: Tracing the Evolution…
Symposium: Extreme Conservation
March 20, 2015
Research
Veduta Painting at the Royal…
Research
Vernacular New York:
Social and Religious Architecture, An…
Cultures of Conservation Blog
November 23, 2014
November 23, 2014
Events
Vernis Martin: French Lacquer of the 18th Century
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
February 24, 2015
Events
Videoconference Series:
Technical Art History: “A Farewell to the Humanities?”
December 8, 2014
Events
Weaving Stories, in Textiles and Television
An intergenerational conversation with a…
February 22, 2023
Research
Weaving Stories, in Textiles and Television
An intergenerational conversation with a…
February 22, 2023
Events
Wendy’s Subway Curated Poetry Reading Series
Women in Art Publishing: Collaborative Networks
May 31, 2018
Events
Where Books and Fabrics Merge
The Endbands of the Eastern Mediterranean Bookbindings
March 23, 2017
Research
Where Research Meets Teaching
Research
Work-in-Progress: Caspar Meyer
Connoisseurship: Between Craft and Cybernetics
October 6, 2020
Research
Work-in-Progress: Ivan Gaskell
Can Art Museums Accommodate both Art and Philosophy?
September 15, 2020
Research
Work-in-Progress: Jennifer L. Mass
Nineteenth-Century Black Patinas on Ancient Bronzes
September 22, 2020
Research
Work-in-Progress: Peter N. Miller
“Utopias of Research—Outline and Update”
February 9, 2021
Events
Workshop—Fustat and the World in the Year 1000
Sponsored by the Trehan Research…
November 6, 2015
Research
Yannik Chastang, Conserving Royal Treasures:
Secrets of the Workshop
Cultures of Conservation Blog
September 16, 2014
September 16, 2014