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This Month at Bard Graduate Center
John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London closed to great acclaim earlier in January. (Roberta Smith, in the New York Times, called it “the kind of thoroughly researched, expertly installed, slightly daunting but ultimately rewarding exhibition in which the Bard Graduate Center specializes . . . it is also typically groundbreaking.”)
In this issue we are pleased to announce our spring Focus Project exhibitions opening February 23. The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity examines the structural, technical, and decorative features of the major types of codices, while Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles considers the making and use of textiles on the Indonesian island.
Read on for more Bard Graduate Center news including the activities of our faculty and upcoming events. Our 22nd Annual Iris Foundation Awards Luncheon will take place on April 18.
image: Catherine Galasso, Dance Performance. Performed by Doug LeCours, Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal, and Meg Weeks during the What is Distance? Festival at Bard Graduate Center, January 20, 2018. Photograph: Maria Baranova.
| | | | Research and Academic Programs | | |  | “Shared Ground: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Craft Studies” is a symposium that will take place September 20–22, 2018 at Bard Graduate Center and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. Read more.
Namita Gupta Wiggers, a member of the symposium’s working group, was interviewed as part of the Bard Graduate Center Craft, Art & Design Oral History Project in 2016. Read more.
| | |  | Bard Graduate Center faculty are presenting talks, moderating symposia, and writing scholarly books and articles. Read more.
| |  | Bard Graduate Center is pleased to announce its inaugural Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize for the best book on the decorative arts, design history, or material culture of the Americas.
The deadline has been extended to March 1, 2018. Read more.
| | |  | The Research Forum’s magazine-like section is devoted to the research life of Bard Graduate Center. Read about, for instance, the arrival, in 1907, of the Hoentschel collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read more.
| | | | | Upcoming in the Gallery | | |  | Focus Project
February 23 – July 8, 2018
This exhibition examines the structural, technical, and decorative features of the major types of codices—the wooden tablet codex, the single-gathering codex, and the multigathering codex—presenting it as an innovation, rather than an invention, that evolved using techniques already widely employed by artisans and craftspeople in the creation of everyday items such as socks and shoes. Read more.
| | |  | Focus Project
February 23 – July 8, 2018
Western scholars and artists converged on the tropical island of Bali, Indonesia, in the first half of the 20th century attracted by its unique culture and vibrant artistic practices. This exhibition considers the making and use of textiles as ceremonial objects that operate within a unique Balinese Hindu cosmology while exploring the role of textiles as symbols of cultural resilience and continuity. Read more.
| | | | | Upcoming Events | | | | | February 1, 2018
12:15–1:15 pm | | Brown Bag Lunch |
| Carolyn Riccardelli
| | | | | | | | | February 7, 2018
12:15–1:15 pm | | Brown Bag Lunch | | | Susan Taylor-LeDuc
| | | | | | | February 19, 2018
12:15–1:15 pm | | Brown Bag Lunch | | | Noémie Etienne
| | | | | | February 24, 2018
12:00–1:00 pm | | Public Program | | | Georgios Boudalis
| | | | | | | February 24, 2018
2:00–3:00 pm | | Public Program | | | Urmila Mohan
| | | | | | | February 28, 2018
12:15–1:15 pm | | Brown Bag Lunch |
| Jeffrey Moser
| | | | | | | Iris Foundation Awards | | | | | | The Twenty-Second Annual Iris Foundation Awards Luncheon will take place on April 18 at the Colony Club in New York City. The Awards, created in 1997, recognize scholars, patrons, and professionals who have made outstanding contributions to the study and appreciation of the decorative arts. This year’s honorees are John C. Waddell, Dr. Jason Sun, Dr. Aileen Ribeiro, and Benoist F. Drut/Maison Gerard.
Proceeds benefit Bard Graduate Center’s Scholarship Fund. For more information, email support@bgc.bard.edu.
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