Bard Graduate Center
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| Type | Graduate School |
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| Established | 1993 |
| Director | Susan Weber |
| Address |
38 West 86th Street New York, NY United States, New York, New York, United States |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | Bard College |
| Website | www.bgc.bard.edu |
The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture is a graduate institute and exhibition space located in New York City. It is affiliated with Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The school occupies a six-story town house at 18 West 86th Street and a second, newly renovated town house at 38 West 86th Street.
Students of the Bard Graduate Center focus on the study of the cultural history of the material world. The institution is committed to the encyclopedic study of things, drawing on methodologies and approaches from art and design history, economic and cultural history and history of technology, philosophy, anthropology, and archaeology.
Students enrolled in the M.A. and Ph.D. programs work closely with a distinguished faculty of active scholars in exploring the interrelationships between works of art and craft, design, places, ideas and social and cultural practice in courses ranging from antiquity to the 21st century.
The BGC offers two programs of study, one leading to a Masters of Arts degree and the other to a Doctor of Philosophy degree. Students in these programs can select courses dealing with various aspects of the cultural history of the material world. The BGC also has a Main Gallery presenting regular exhibitions relating to the history of the decorative arts, design and material culture, and a Focus Gallery devoted to small-scale exhibitions resulting from the explorations and research of faculty and students.
Students in the MA and PhD programs take the same courses. The curriculum for the master's degree includes a number of required courses, tutorials, independent studies, travel, and internships.
Students otherwise construct their own program of study. The BGC is known for its focus on New York and American Material Culture; History and Theory of Museums; Modern Design History; Early Modern Europe; and Comparative Medieval Material Culture (China, Islam, Europe).
In addition to formal classes, the BGC runs a series of evening colloquia designed to function in a kind of polyphony with the “for credit” course offerings. Regular evening seminars, which are open to the academic public, serve as foci. In addition, the History and Theory of Museums program brings in speakers affiliated with current exhibitions, and the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Europe group cosponsors two annual events with the Columbia University interdepartmental group on Medieval and Renaissance studies.
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