The Material, Visual and Digital Culture Seminar series explores the material and visual dimensions of human life — from ...

Three Ph.D. candidates in history—Emily Wells, Jennifer Merriman, and Qiong Wu—received Boswell-Caracci Material Culture Study Fund grants to reach beyond campus and their primary fields to connect ...

Bernard L. Herman, renowned scholar, author and professor emeritus of American material culture at the University of Delaware, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Dec. 30, 2024. He was 73. David Shields, ...

(Black PR Wire) BALTIMORE, MD — Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will open a groundbreaking exhibition that explores the conceptual, ...

Meet faculty and students in-person or online and learn about admissions and financial aid at BGC’s fall open houses.

At Bard Graduate Center (BGC), we study the cultural history of the material world. Our scope is global and ranges from distant antiquity to the present. For more than 25 years, our interdisciplinary, ...

Material culture and cultural research / Thomas J. Schlereth -- Learning from looking / Peirce F. Lewis -- The power of things / Dell Upton -- American decorative arts, household furnishings / Kenneth ...

According to a Saudi proverb, to a hungry man, the sun is a flatbread. The same entities are perceived differently by different individuals, groups and societies. Take, for example, a work of art. To ...

In today’s world, there’s an unspoken understanding that objects have a meaning, both to the individual and to society. No matter where you are in the world, people recognize that brands and other ...

Working with fabric necessitates a certain type of intimacy. How you move through the world is punctuated by what you were wearing; fabric changes you, it can define your day. Fabric, whether it’s ...

“The Culture” began on street corners in the Bronx during the 1970s. That street culture, Black culture, expanded to encompass the culture of cities–urban culture. Having taken over cities, “the ...