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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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Research

Bard Graduate Center is a research institute for advanced, interdisciplinary study of diverse material worlds. We support the innovative scholarship of our faculty and students as well as resident fellows, guest curators and artists, and visiting speakers.

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Our Public Humanities + Research department focuses on making scholarly work widely available and accessible through the coordination of the fellowship program and public programming that combines academic research with exhibition-related events. Across the institution—from the classroom to the gallery, from publications to this website—we utilize digital media to facilitate and share original research. This section outlines current programming and provides a repository for past scholarly content.

Luxury Object Artisans in the Ancient Andes: Metals and Coca in Northern Peru, AD 200 - 1532

During her year at BGC as a “Cultures of Conservation” Postdoctoral Fellow Alicia Boswell is collaborating with conservators and curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to study a Moche culture metals collection of ritual regalia. In this talk Alicia Boswell will discuss her current project and previous research on the impact of Andean imperial powers on a coca-plant producing community. Coca is a plant that can only be grown in limited ecological niches and is a highly sought-after resource essential to elite strategies of legitimization. The overarching theme between the two projects is their focus on Luxury Object Artisans in the Ancient Andes.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Brown Bag Lunch

RSVP is required. To RSVP, email academicevents@bgc.bard.edu, or call 212.501.3019.