| Title | Author | Tags / Collections | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 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 |
 | Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che (Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books, 2018) | Max Elbaum (Author), Alicia Garza (Foreword) | 1960s, Revolution, Marxism, Activism |
 | Revisiting the Potosí Principle Archive: Histories of Art and Extraction (New York, NY: Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, 2023) | Alice Creischer (Editor), Andreas Siekmann (Editor) | Art, Archives, Latin American Art |
Revisiting 5+1 (Stony Brook, NY: Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University, 2022) | Elise Armani (Editor), Amy Kahng (Editor), Gabriella Shypula (Editor), Howardena Pindell (Contributor), Yalile Suriel (Contributor), Lowery Stokes Sims (Contributor) | African American art, Exhibition catalog, Art / Permanent Collection | |
 | Reversible(Chicago: Switchback Books, 2017) | Marisa Crawford (Author) | 1990s, Poetry, Music, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
| Reunión: Ciudad de México. 19. Septiembre. 2017 13:14:40 h(Mexico City, MX: Gato Negro Ediciones, 2017) | Dani Zelko (Author) | Spanish poetry, Poetry, Spanish language / Permanent Collection |
 | Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1973-1977(New York: PictureBox; Los Angeles: PRISM, 2011) | Mike Kelley (Editor), Jim Shaw (Artist), Mike Kelley (Artist), Dan Nadel (Editor), Cary Loren (Artist), Niagara (Artist), Nicole Rudick (Author) | Exhibition catalog, Music, Photography, Collective, Zines, Prints and printmaking |
 | Retrospective By Xavier Le Roy(Les Presses Du Reel (2014), 360 pages, 2014) | edited (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |