bard graduate center Archive
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Art + Science: The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot
Posted on October 2, 2015This piece at the intersection of Art + Science is a post written by a former Yale University Press intern after she visited the 2012 exhibition at the Bard Graduate […] -
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From the Designer’s Desk (Part 2): Rita Jules
Posted on August 21, 2014We keep going back to Miko McGinty’s From the Designer’s Desk post, both for the lovely text and the wonderful images. We expect to do the same with Part 2 […] -
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Win a copy of Swedish Wooden Toys
Posted on August 15, 2014Did you play with wooden toys when you were young? We did. Wooden blocks, wooden doll houses, wooden rocking horses, wooden train sets, trucks, puzzles, spinning tops, tool boxes… and […] -
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The Summer Solstice and a Sneak Peek at Swedish Wooden Toys
Posted on June 20, 2014Tomorrow, Saturday, June 21st, is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, with the longest period of daylight we’ll enjoy this year. This is a fun occasion here in New Haven, […] -
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Design from the History of Coffee and Tea
Posted on January 24, 2014The persistently low temperatures and snow accumulations this winter have had all of us in New Haven, and many of our friends, family, and acquaintances across the US, considering the […] -
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The Circus in America
Posted on November 16, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks In the introduction to Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010, the catalogue accompanying a fabulous exhibition of the same name currently on view at the Bard Graduate Center […] -
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The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot
Posted on November 2, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks Maggie McLoughlin— At the entrance of The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking, an exhibition of the intricate graphic compositions of the […] -
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For the Card-Carrying Shopper: Kenneth Ames on Christmas Cards
Posted on December 13, 2011Kenneth Ames, author of American Christmas Cards 1900-1960 and organizer of the exhibition on view at the Bard Graduate Center through the end of the year, writes on his fascinating […] -
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Unlikely Beginnings: Knoll Textiles and WWII
Posted on August 18, 2011The founders of the Knoll furniture company, Hans Knoll and Jens Risom, would never have assumed that they were beginning a leading, imaginative firm that would influence other designers for […]