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Extended through February 12, 2017 Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions
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Bard Graduate Center's Gallery, library and academic building are closed today due to snow.

Our evening event for Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions is also cancelled. The exhibition is on view through February 12.

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The Wall Street Journal reviews Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions

"This multifarious exhibition encourages us to study Percier’s evolving style in all its cool grandeur." —Wall Street Journal

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....Tales from "a searcher"

—Jeffrey L. Collins is Professor of 17th- and 18th-century Art and Culture 

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BGC Publications

Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions
Jean-Philippe Garric, editor

Source Vol. 35, No. 04

In Space We Read Time: On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
Karl Schlögel, translated by Gerrit Jackson

West 86th Vol. 23, No. 01
Guest-edited by Pamela H. Smith

History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000
Edited by Pat Kirkham and Susan Weber

The Technical Image: A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery
Edited by Horst Bredekamp, Vera Dünkel, and Birgit Schneider

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