Gothic Aryan: Viollet-le-Duc and the Museums of the Trocadéro; A lecture by Risham Majeed
Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th St, New York City, NY, United StatesBard Graduate Center Gallery
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc is widely celebrated as a draughtsman, architect, and restorer of medieval buildings. A national hero in France, Viollet-le-Duc tends to be plucked out of the complex nexus of colonialism and nationalism which molded much of his thinking. Indeed, Viollet-le-Duc’s friendship with Arthur de Gobineau, who wrote the Essay on the Inequality of […]
The Handshouse Studio Notre-Dame Project
Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th St, New York City, NY, United StatesBard Graduate Center Gallery
A presentation by Marie Brown (Handshouse Studio), Michael Burrey (North Bennet Street School), Lindsay Cook (Penn State University), and Jackson DuBois (Timber Framers Guild) Handshouse Studio (founded 2002) is an educational nonprofit that creates hands-on learning projects with communities, institutions, and partners around the world. After the tragic 2019 fire in Paris, Handshouse launched the […]
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Drawing Time: Viollet-le-Duc’s Investigations of Natural and Human Histories
Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th St, New York City, NY, United StatesBard Graduate Center Gallery
Join co-curator Martin Bressani for a private tour of Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds, on view at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from January 28 to May 24, 2026. This is the first major U.S. exhibition devoted to Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), celebrated restorer of Notre-Dame de Paris and one of modern architecture’s most influential figures. It is […]