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Research programming is a major component of intellectual life at Bard Graduate Center. Organized by our faculty, the seminars, lectures, and symposia scheduled throughout the semester broaden our curricular vision and help further the institution’s goal of promoting research in the areas of decorative arts, design history, and material culture—what we call the “cultural history of the material world.” Advance registration is strongly encouraged. Please click through for full descriptions and to register.
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Lectures and Seminars |
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Tuesday, March 26, 6–7:30 pm
Robin Schuldenfrei
Katja and Nicolai Tangen Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Modernism, The Courtauld Institute of Art
This lecture examines the intensified turn towards the social usefulness of art by Herbert Bayer, tracing an arc from his initial research in Germany to its materialization in the US. Bayer was deeply invested in reaching viewers—he experimented with techniques of display and graphic design, using processes of remediation as a means of communicating visually in new ways. Read more.
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 BGCTV This event will be livestreamed. A link to the video will be posted to the event listing the day of the talk. |
Thursday, March 28, 9 am–4:45 pm
Friday, March 29, 9 am–4:45 pm
When one examines a painted surface, whether a New Kingdom Egyptian sarcophagus or a John Singer Sargent portrait, it appears as though the paint is dry, and is therefore no longer interacting with itself or its environment. Nothing could be further from the truth. Paint is constantly active, responding to its surroundings and reacting with (for example) the water, light, and oxygen in its local environment. Read more.
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BGCTV This event will be livestreamed. A link to the video will be posted to the event listing the day of the talk. |
 This event is part of our “Cultures of Conservation” initiative, supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Tuesday, April 2, 6–7:30 pm
Sandy Isenstadt
Professor, University of Delaware
The single-family house, the most intimate setting for American everyday life, has long been the primary spatial resource for the articulation of individual, family, and even national identity. Consonant with this role, its meaning has changed as ideas of character have changed. In the nineteenth century, character was part of the physical fabric of the house and represented the occupants’ integrity to the outside world. Read more.
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
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BGCTV This event will be livestreamed. A link to the video will be posted to the event listing the day of the talk. |
Wednesday, April 3, 6–7:30 pm
Kevin Salatino
Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Chair and Curator of Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago
The Grand Tour was both finishing school and rite of passage for the British (male) aristocrat. As Samuel Johnson noted, “a man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.” While Rome was “the great object,” Venice was an essential stop on the way. The floating city’s wondrous novelty, its reputation for license and luxury, and its much-touted devotion to liberty were compelling attractions for the Grand Tourist. Read more.
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BGCTV This event will be livestreamed. A link to the video will be posted to the event listing the day of the talk. |
Tuesday, April 9, 6–7:30 pm
Charles F. Peterson
Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Oberlin College
In this talk, Peterson will examine the use of the museum space in the 2018 film Black Panther (Dir. Ryan Coogler), the 2018 documentary on author Toni Morrison’s 2006 curation in The Louvre, The Foreigner’s Home (Dirs. Rian Brown, Jonathan Demme, and Geoff Pingree), and that same year’s music video release by Beyoncé and Jay-Z, “Apeshit.” Read more.
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Around the Center |
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On view through July 7 in the Bard Graduate Center Gallery: Making—Media—Material, exhibitions curated by associate professors Aaron Glass and Paul Stirton and BGC alumna Sasha Nixon (MA ’18). Learn more and visit.
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Work with master goldsmith Jeanette K. Caines to gain a hands-on understanding of why handmade artwork is so essential in an increasingly digital world. Learn more and register.
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Native Art Department International, a Brooklyn-based collaborative project created and administered by wife-and-husband artists Maria Hupfield (b. 1975) and Jason Lujan (b. 1971), is in residence in the fourth floor Gallery through July 7. Learn more.
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