Penn Museum Goes on a Daily Digital Dig
Last November, the Penn Museum unveiled two newly remodeled galleries and a refurbished auditorium. Along with the remodeling, the museum […]
material culture
Zimmerli Art Museum Brings First Exhibit of Post-War Soviet Industrial Design to US
Designers in the Soviet Union after WWII imagined a rich world of new consumer goods. Now, many of these ideas […]
Bard Graduate Center Focus Projects Series Expands with Two New Exhibitions
Chinese material culture and the first world’s fair held in the U.S. will be exhibited.
This Month at MARCH: Experiential Education
This month our rowhouse in the Cooper Street Historic District has been lively with undergraduate and graduate students as well as the ongoing activities of our staff.
There's No Place Like Kickstarter
To help fund conservation and display of Dorothy’s red slipper from The Wizard of Oz, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History has launched a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $300,000.
NEH Institute Applications Due Mar. 2
American Material Culture: Nineteenth-Century New York NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers At the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative […]
Through a Lens, Clearly: The Civil Rights Movement in the Camera's Eye
By Gail Friedman It has been more than 50 years since television news and picture magazines began bringing into American […]
Visualizing 19th Century New York
“Visualizing 19th Century New York” a new exhibit at the Bard Graduate Center, opens on September 19th. The exhibit will be accompanied by a symposium, gallery programs, and walking tours.
Winterthur Accepting Research Fellowship Applications
Applications are due January 15, 2015 for Winterthur’s 2015-2016 Research Fellowship Program. Short- and long-term fellowships are available to support research in many areas of social and cultural history.
Wendy Bellion to give Charles C. Eldredge Prize Lecture
Wendy Bellion will give the Charles C. Eldredge lecture, “Here Trust Your Eyes’: Visual Illusion and the Early American Theater” in September.