| Title | Author | Tags / Collections | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Robert Morris: Sculptures 1962-1984 (London, U.K.: Runkel-Hue-Williams, 1990) | Robert Morris (Artist), Michael Compton (Contributor) | Exhibition catalog, Sculpture, Minimalism / Permanent Collection |
 | Robert Mapplethorpe: Black Book(New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 1986) | Robert Mapplethorpe, Ntozake Shange (Foreword) | Photography, Monograph, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Robert Flaherty: Photographer/Filmmaker: The Inuit 1910-1922(Vancouver Art Gallery & International Center for Photography, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Robert Filliou: Teaching And Learning As Performing Arts(Occasional Papers (2014), Edition: 500, 230 pages, 2014) | Robert Filliou (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Rob's Word Shop(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019) | Robert Fitterman (Author), Lawrence Giffin (Afterword) | Language and Linguistics, Poetry, Diary, Performance, Cultural studies, Transcript, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
| Road of a Thousand Wonders(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011) | Jeffery Joe Nelson | Permanent Collection |
 | River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West(New York: Penguin Books, 2004) | Rebecca Solnit (Author) | Technology, 19th century, American history, History, Review / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama—Manhattan, 1970–1980(New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2013) | Jay Sanders (Author), J. Hoberman (Author) | New York, 1970s, 1980s, Exhibition catalog, Performance, Avant-garde / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Ritmo Volcan (Mexico City, Mexico: Temblores Publicaciones, 2022) | Minia Biabiany (Artist), Eva Barios De Caevel (Contributor), Ana Gabriela Garcia (Contributor), Yina Jiménez Suriel (Contributor) | Artist’s book, Nature, Sculpture, Experimental, Monograph, Caribbean and Caribbean Studies / Permanent Collection |
 | Rites of passage : art for the end of the century(London : Tate Gallery Publications, 1995., 1995) | Stuart Morgan, Frances Morris | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection, Andrea Rosen Gallery |
 | Rite of Passage: The Early Years of Vienna Actionism 1960-1966(New York: Hauser & Wirth; Cologne: Snoeck, 2014) | Hubert Klocker (Editor), Hubert Klocker (Author), Gloria Sutton (Author) | Austrian art, Exhibition catalog, Performance, Vienna Actionism / Permanent Collection |
Riso Color Sciences Multipack! (Los Angeles, CA: Screentone.TV, 2019) | Ryan Cecil Smith (Author) | Instructional, Risograph | |
 | Rise Up(Seattle, WA / New York: Wave Books, 2007) | Matthew Rohrer (Author) | Poetry, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-1984 (New York: Penguin Books., 2006) | Simon Reynolds (Author) | Music history, Punk / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
 | Riot / Control (New York: Research and Destroy, 2011) | Research and Destroy (Afterword) | Zines, Leftwing Politics, Incarceration, Organizing / Permanent Collection |
 | Rights Not Charity: Protest Textiles and Disability Activism (Cambridge, EN: Commons Threads Press, 2023) | Gill Crawshaw (Author) | Protest, Textile and fiber arts, Disability / Permanent Collection |
 | Right-Wing Women(New York : Perigee Books, 1983) | Andrea Dworkin | Politics, Critical theory, Feminism and Feminist theory / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017), Recovered books |
 | Riding with Rilke: Reflection on Motorcycles & Books (New York, NY: WW Norton & Co, 2012) | Ted Bishop (Author) | Fiction, American Fiction -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Richard Serra: Sculpture, 1985-1998 (Los Angeles, CA: MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998) | Russell Ferguson (Editor), Anthony McCall (Editor), Clara Weyergraf-Serra (Editor), Hal Foster (Contributor), David Sylvester (Contributor), Dirk Reinartz (Contributor) | Sculpture, Modern art, Minimalism / Permanent Collection |
 | Richard Segalman: Black & White: Muses, Magic & Monotypes(New York: The Artist Book Foundation, 2015) | Susan Forrest Castle (Author) | Painting, Monograph, Contemporary art, Figurative art and Portraiture / Permanent Collection |
 | Richard III (The Pelican Shakespeare)(Penguin Classics (2017), Edition: Reissue, 208 pages, 2017) | William Shakespeare (Author) | BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Richard Hawkins: Third Mind (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, ) | Richard Hawkins (Artist), Lisa Dorin (Contributor), Michael Ned Holte (Contributor), George Baker (Contributor) | Exhibition catalog, Collage, Pop culture, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection, Dan Fox Collection |
 | Richard Diebenkorn: Ocean Park(New York: Rizzoli, 1992) | Jack D. Flam | American art, Modernism, Painting, Art criticism / Permanent Collection |
 | Rhythmanalysis : space, time, and everyday life(New York : Bloomsbury, 2013., 2013) | Henri Lefebvre | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
| Rhapsody(Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Reza Abdoh(Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999., 1999) | Daniel Mufson | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Reworlding Ramallah: Short Science Fiction Stories from Palestine (Eindhoven, Estonia: Onomatopee, 2019) | Callum Copley (Editor), Lama Altakrui (Contributor), Shayma Nader (Contributor), Adele Jarrar (Contributor), Qusai Al-Saify (Contributor), Shada Mustafa (Contributor), Hiba Isleem (Contributor), Jameela Ewais (Contributor), Fakhry Al-Serdawi (Contributor) | Science fiction, Bilingual, Short stories, Speculative fiction, Palestine / Permanent Collection |
| Revue Trimestrielle D-Art Photographique(Publisher Unknown, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Revolution: A Reader (Paris, France: Paraguay Press; Portland, OR: Publication Studio, 2015) | Lisa Robertson (Editor), Matthew Stadler (Editor), David Brazil (Contributor) | Revolution, Liberation movements, Reader / Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room |
 | Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947-2016(New York: Hauser & Wirth; Milan: Skira, 2016) | Paul Schimmel (Editor), Anne M. Wagner (Author), Elizabeth A. T. Smith (Author), Jenni Sorkin (Editor), Jenni Sorkin (Author), Emily Rothrum (Author), Cologne) Lena Mozer (Kühle und Mozer (Designer) | Exhibition catalog, Modernism, Sculpture, Abstraction, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |