Conserving Active Matter
and
Richard Tuttle: What Is the Object?
On View March 25–July 10, 2022
Bard Graduate Center Gallery

Bard Graduate Center Gallery reopens its doors on March 25, for the spring 2022 Focus Project Exhibitions, Conserving Active Matter and Richard Tuttle: What Is the Object?

The exhibitions Conserving Active Matter and Richard Tuttle: What Is the Object? invite us to reflect on our relationship with objects and how we care for them, as artifacts to be studied and preserved, as equipment to assist us with daily tasks, as personal items imbued with memory and meaning, as sources of inspiration and awe.

Purchase of ticket provides entry into both exhibitions. Proof of COVID vaccination, photo ID, and the use of masks are required of all visitors to BGC Gallery. Please see our visitor policies for all up-to-date COVID policies.

Conserving Active Matter is part of Cultures of Conservation, a multi-year initiative generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. More information about the initiative can be found here.

This exhibition and publication are generously supported by donors to Bard Graduate Center.

Support for Richard Tuttle: What is the Object? has been generously provided by Agnes Gund with additional support from David Kordansky Gallery, Scully Peretsman Foundation, and Peter Freeman and Lluïsa Sàrries Zgonc, as well as donors to Bard Graduate Center.

Support for the publication has been provided by Pace Gallery.

Buy the Books!

Richard Tuttle: What Is the Object?
This volume, designed by the Belgian book artist Luc Derycke as a ‘book as object’ carries forth the challenging question of the meaning of objects.

Conserving Active Matter
Conserving Active Matter draws together the main lines and interim conclusions of a multi-year research project to reimagine the relationship between conservation knowledge and the humanistic study of the material world.

Tramp art box, ca. 1870. Wood, gesso, velvet. Collection of Richard Tuttle. Photograph: © Bruce M. White/Christina Clare Ewald.

Face and Shoulder from an Anthropoid Sarcophagus, reportedly from Giza, Egypt, 332-30 B.C.E, Dynasty 26 or later, Ptolemaic Period. Greywacke. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1516E.

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      <p><em><strong>Conserving Active Matter<br />
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Richard Tuttle: What Is the Object?<br />
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<p>Bard Graduate Center Gallery reopens its doors on March 25, for the spring 2022 Focus Project Exhibitions, <a href="https://www.bgc.bard.edu/exhibitions/exhibitions/115/conserving-active-matter"><strong><em>Conserving Active Matter </em></strong></a>and <a href="https://www.bgc.bard.edu/exhibitions/exhibitions/116/richard-tuttle"><strong><em>Richard Tuttle: What Is the Object?</em></strong></a></p>
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<p>The exhibitions <em>Conserving Active Matter</em> and <em>Richard Tuttle: What Is the Object?</em> invite us to reflect on our relationship with objects and how we care for them, as artifacts to be studied and preserved, as equipment to assist us with daily tasks, as personal items imbued with memory and meaning, as sources of inspiration and awe.</p>
<p><em>Purchase of ticket provides entry into both exhibitions. Proof of COVID vaccination, photo ID, and the use of masks are required of all visitors to BGC Gallery. Please see our <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/cbJbCmZj3NsWPW4hQRQ2F?domain=bgc.bard.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/cbJbCmZj3NsWPW4hQRQ2F?domain%3Dbgc.bard.edu&source=gmail&ust=1646338672942000&usg=AOvVaw0PFyd-rRZMbuNKdeAwBD1b">visitor policies</a> for all up-to-date COVID policies.</em></p>
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      <p><i>Conserving Active Matter</i> is part of Cultures of Conservation, a multi-year initiative generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. More information about the initiative can be found <a href="http://www.bgc.bard.edu/cultures-of-conservation">here.</a></p>
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