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Exhibits & Tours

Samoan Art and Artists
Haegue Yang
Cao Fei
Bentu
The Long Front of Culture
Pollock Matters
The Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona
The Plains of Mars
Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands
Flower Art: Makoto Azuma
Tadao Ando
Indian Ocean Current
The Ming World
This Will Have Been
A Delicate Matter
Mary Sherman
About Us
Partisan Aesthetics
Shahzia Sikander
Naga Textiles
Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases
Conservation: MFA Highlights
Beyond Words: new research on manuscripts in Boston collections
Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' and the Holocaust
Homebound
Modern Ink: The Art of Wu Changshi
War Baby / Love Child
Nam June Paik: Art in Process
The Plume and the Palette
Alex Katz: Gathering
The Pamphilj and the Arts
Roman in the Provinces
The Asian Modern
Bhupen Khakhar: You Can't Please All
The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam
The Hope of Another Spring
Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print
First Hand
Picturing History at the Ottoman Court
Making Art Together
Yayoi Kusama
Self-Portraits: Twelve Filipina Artists Speak
Changing and Unchanging Things
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art
What the Emperor Built
Here r more
Leap Before You Look
Carrie Mae Weems

Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month Display (May 1 - May 31)

This virtual display features items in our collection that showcase Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American artists. We have a physical display of these books and others in the Bapst Lobby. You can also click on a book above to be brought to that book's record in our library catalog and request us to hold it for you.

BC Faculty Book Display (Apr 01 - May 31)

This virtual book display features books in our collection that highlight the scholarship of the Faculty in Boston College's Art, Art History, and Film Department.

Head to the Kresge Reading Room to look through our physical display. You can also click on a book above to be brought to that book's record in our library catalog and request us to hold it for you.

Stained Glass Audio Tour (Permanent)

The windows in Bapst Library are iconic. Each window has a theme related to an academic subject, Jesuit education or distinguished Jesuits.

The general theme of the windows in Gargan Hall (the fourth floor reading room) is the traditional curriculum of studies in Jesuit Colleges and Universities. You can listen to our audio tour here, or you can scan the QR Codes next to the 15 stops in Bapst Library. Remember to wear earphones!

Stained Glass Booklets (Permanent)

Bapst Booklet CoverWe have booklets free for in-library use that provide information about the stained glass windows at Bapst Library. Come to the main floor's Information Desk to ask for a copy during your visit. Illuminating Stained Glass is also available as a pdf.