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Exhibits & Tours

Fantasy and Horror
Fashioning Horror
Gothic
Supernatural America
Forbidden Animation
Courbet's Landscapes
Egon Schiele
J. W. Waterhouse
Dreadful Pleasures
Yokai
Japanese Ghosts and Demons
Devils, Demons, and Witchcraft
Otto Dix and New Objectivity
Paul Klee
The Hundred Headless Woman
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Picturing Death 1200-1600
Death
The Anatomical Venus
Speculum Mortis
Sculptors Against the State
Censoring Art
Outlaw Representation
Red Lines
Dance of Death
Death and Art
Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture
Medieval Monsters
Intimate Companions
Chris Ofili: Night and Day
Pussy Riot
Robert Mapplethorpe
Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders
Dragons, Monsters and Fabulous Beasts
Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters
Fear and Art in the Contemporary World
Ai Weiwei
Art and Politics
Emil Nolde
Surrealism in Egypt
The Witch As Muse
Ghost Ships
Images of Horror and Fantasy
Fabulous Beasts and Demons
Degenerate Art
Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Political censorship of the visual arts in nineteenth-century France
Suspended License

Halloween Display (Oct 16 - Oct 31)

Happy Halloween! This virtual display features books in our collection that highlight art with themes of death and horror, monsters and witches, as well as the paranormal and supernatural. We have a physical display of these books 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.

Art Censorship Book Display (Sept 15 - Dec 31)

This virtual book display features books in our collection that highlight censored art throughout history and in modern times.

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.