| Title | Author | Tags / Collections | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy(Dijon, France: Les presses du reel, 2014) | Xavier Le Roy (Artist), Corinne Diserens (Author), Claire Bishop (Author), Bojana Cvejic (Editor), Volmir Cordeiro (Author) | 21st century, Performance, Dance, Bam2016 / Permanent Collection |
 | Retreat from Likeness in the Theory of Painting(Columbia University Press, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Resolution: A Critique of Video Art (Los Angeles, C.A.: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 1986) | Patti Podesta (Editor) | Exhibition catalog, Media studies, Video art / Permanent Collection |
 | Resistance Performed: An Anthology on Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive Regimes in Latin America(Zurich: JRP Ringier and Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, 2015) | Heike Munder (Editor), Rodrigo Alonso (Author), Nelly Richard (Author), Miguel A. Lopez (Author), Cristiana Tejo (Author) | Performance, Latin American studies, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism(Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1995) | Janet Wolff | Pop culture, Feminism and Feminist theory / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
 | Resident alien : on border-crossing and the undocumented divine(Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015], 2015) | Kazim Ali | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Resetting the Stage: Public Theatre Between the Market and Democracy(Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2012) | Dragan Klaic (Author) | Politics, Theatre, Performance, Performance studies, Bam2016, Politically engaged / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
| Report of the Mayor�s Committee on Cultural Policy, October 15, 1974(Publisher Unknown, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs (Oxford World's Classics)(Oxford University Press (2009), Edition: 1, 224 pages, 2009) | Soren Kierkegaard (Author) | BAM Reading Room (2017) |
| Renoir: My Father(Little, Brown & Company, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
| Renoir(Crown Publishers, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Rene Ricard 1979-1980(Paris: Éditions Lutanie, 2018) | Rene Ricard (Artist), Gerard Malanga (Editor), Rachel Valinsky (Translator), Manon Lutanie (Translator) | Artist’s book, Poetry, Art, Translation / Permanent Collection |
 | Remote(NY: Rachel Uffner Gallery, 2011) | Sara Greenberger Raferty, Claire Barliant (Contributor) | Gender, Television, Installation art, Contemporary art, Body and Body Politics / Permanent Collection |
Remembering El Corno Emplumado/ The Plumed Horn (Buffalo, NY: The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, SUNY Buffalo, 2018) | Sergio Mondragon (Author), Margaret Randall (Translator) | Mexico, Mexican poetry - 20th century / Erizo Residency | |
 | Remembering LB City Cyber Lesbian Utopia (New York: Hyperlink Press, 2019) | Taehee Whang (Author) | Artist’s book, Utopia, Queer / Permanent Collection, Mindy Seu Cyberfeminism Reference Collection |
 | Remember the Details (Berlin, Germany: Floating Opera Press, 2021) | Skye Arundhati Thomas (Author) | India, Protest / Permanent Collection |
 | Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture (Cambridge, MA: M.I.T Press, 2002) | Mary Flannegan (Editor), Austin Booth (Editor) | Anthology, Technology, Gender studies / Permanent Collection, Mindy Seu Cyberfeminism Reference Collection |
 | Relational Aesthetics (Dijon, France: Les Presses du Réel,, 2009) | Nicolas Bourriaud (Author), Simon Pleasance (Translator), Fronza Woods (Translator), Mathieu Copeland (Translator) | Critical theory, Relational Aesthetics / Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection |
 | Reinventing the past : archaism and antiquarianism in Chinese art and visual culture(Chicago : Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago : Art Media Resources [distributor], 2010., 2010) | Wu Hung | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Reinventing Horizons(Prague, CZ: Display, 2016) | Václav Janoscik (Editor), Jason Adams (Contributor), Antonia Majaca (Contributor), Luciana Parisi (Contributor), Amanda Beech (Contributor), Nick Srnicek (Contributor), Patricia Reed (Contributor), Federica Bueti (Contributor), Armen Avanessian (Contributor), Peter Wolfendale (Contributor), Mohammad Salemy (Contributor), Diann Bauer (Contributor), Vita Bohal (Editor), Dustin Breitling (Editor), Victoria Ivanova (Contributor), Martin Brabec (Contributor) | Philosophy, Technology, Critical theory, Political science, Media studies, Art criticism / Permanent Collection |
 | Rehearsing Solidarity: Learning from Mutual Aid (Thick Press, 2022) | Mark Anthony Hernandez-Motaghy (Author) | Zines, Liberation movements, Mutual aid, Organizing / Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room |
Registros (Santander, Cantabria, ES: Galería José de la Fuentes, 2015) | José de la Fuente (Editor) | Spain, Exhibition catalog, Galleries / Erizo Residency | |
 | Refranero Politico (Madrid, Spain: Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, 2013) | Antoni Muntadas (Author) | Haiku, Artist’s book, Appropriation, Politics / Permanent Collection, Jaime Davidovich Collection |
 | Reflections on Art: A Sourcebook of Writings by Artists, Critics, and Philosophers(New York: Oxford University Press, 1961 [c1958]) | Susanne K. Langer (Editor) | Philosophy, Aesthetics, Art theory, Artist writing / Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive |
| Red Shifting(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) | Aleksander Skidan | Permanent Collection |
 | Red(New York: Galerie Lelong, 2012) | Kate Shepherd (Author), Bill Arning (Introduction) | Exhibition catalog / Permanent Collection |
 | Recuerdos de Nuestro Pasado (Washington, DC: Thick Press, 2018) | Angela Cyla (Author), Sergio Guzmán (Author), Jose Lovos (Author), Gloria Revelo (Author), Erin Segal (Author), Davy Shlasko (Editor) | Poetry, History, Photography, Spanish language, Latin American studies, Social documentary photography / Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room |
 | Reconciliation with Sapiens, Volume 2: Let's not murder anyone (Seoul, KR: The Flexibility Club, 2023) | Leebin Soyeon (Author) | Artist’s book, Illustration / Permanent Collection, Yellow Pen Club |
 | Reconciliation with Sapiens, Volume 1: Love Education (Seoul, KR: The Flexibility Club, 2021) | Leebin Soyeon (Author) | Artist’s book, Illustration / Permanent Collection, Yellow Pen Club |
| Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics(Bay Press, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |