Skip to Main Content
Chat With Us

Bapst Library

:

Exhibits & Tours

Conversations with Arab artists
Art in Iraq Today
We Are Iraqis
Modern Arab Art
The Ming World
The Plains of Mars
The Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona
Pollock Matters
Hilmi Al-Tuni: evoking popular Arab culture
Safar Voyage
Ahmed Mater
Sophie Halaby in Jerusalem
Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' and the Holocaust
Carrie Mae Weems
Leap Before You Look
Here r more
Ahmed Morsi: a dialogic imagination
Walid Raad
Dissonant Archives
Artists, Writers and the Arab Spring
What the Emperor Built
Making Art Together
Picturing History at the Ottoman Court
First Hand
Modern Art in the Arab World
Mahmoud Saïd
Etel Adnan
Imperfect Chronology
Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print
Roman in the Provinces
The Pamphilj and the Arts
The Long Front of Culture
Baghdad Arts Deco
Art of the Middle East
Zaha Hadid
Hayv Kahraman: Acts of Reparation
Alex Katz: Gathering
The Plume and the Palette
Beyond Words: new research on manuscripts in Boston collections
Conservation: MFA Highlights
Louvre Abu Dhabi
Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab world, 1950s-1980s
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World
Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World
Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases
Mary Sherman
A Delicate Matter
This Will Have Been
A History of Arab Graphic Design
Etel Adnan

Arab American Heritage Month Display (Apr 01 - Apr 30)

This virtual display features items in our collection that showcase Arab American artists and the art they may take inspiration from. 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.