Past Exhibitions
English Embroidery from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700: 'Twixt Art and Nature
December 11, 2008 - April 12, 2009
Curated by Andrew Morrall and Melinda Watt
Organized in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Thomas Hope: Regency Designer
July 17 - November 16, 2008
Curated by Philip Hewat-Jaboor, David Watkin and Daniella Ben-Arie
The second in a series of exhibitions organized by the Bard Graduate Center to be shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London: March 22 to June 22, 2008
Shaker Design: Out of This World of This World
March 13 - June 15, 2008
Curated by Jean M. Burks
Organized by the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont
Exhibition dates at the Shelburne Museum: June 16 - October 28, 2007
Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, ca. 1710-63
November 15, 2007- February 10, 2008
Curated by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
A Brass Menagerie, Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement
July 12 - October 14, 2007
Curated by Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio
Organized by the Munson Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York
Exhibition dates at the Munson Williams-Proctor Arts Institute: October 2, 2005 - March 19, 2006
Bruno Mathsson: Architect and Designer
March 22 - June 10, 2007
Curated by Hedvig Hedqvist and Karin Åberg Waern
Organized by The Bruno Mathsson Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Värnamo, Sweden in collaboration with The Swedish Museum of Architecture. The exhibition was circulated by the Swedish Institute in Stockholm.
James "Athenian" Stuart, 1713-1788: The Rediscovery of Antiquity
November 16, 2006 - February 18, 2007
Curated by Susan Weber Soros
The first in a series of exhibitions organized by the Bard Graduate Center to be shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London: March 15 - June 24, 2007.
Lions, Dragons, & Other Beasts: Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages, Vessels for Church and Table
July 12 - October 15, 2006
Curated by Peter Barnet and Pete Dandridge
Organized in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor
July 12 - October 15, 2006
Curated by Nina Stritzler-Levine
American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow
March 16 - June 11, 2006
Curated by David A. Hanks and Dr. Martin Eidelberg
Organized by the Liliane and David M. Stewart Program for Modern Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945.
November 18, 2005 - February 12, 2006
Curated by Jacqueline Marx Atkins
Tour Dates: Allentown Art Museum, October 6, 2006 - January 7, 2007; Honolulu Academy of Arts, February 8 - April 29, 2007.
Georg Jensen Jewelry
July 14 - October 16, 2005
Curated by David A. Taylor
Cherished Possessions: A New England Legacy
March 10 - June 5, 2005
Curated by Nancy Carlisle
Organized by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
The Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry
November 18, 2004 - February 6, 2005
Curated by Susan Weber Soros and Stephanie Walker
Tour Dates: National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome, February 21 - May 29, 2005; The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London, June 13 - October 2, 2005.
Vasemania - Neoclassical Form and Ornament in Europe: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
July 22 - October 17, 2004
Curated by Stephanie Walker and William Rieder
Organized in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The Devonshire Inheritance, Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth
March 17 - June 20, 2004
Curated by Nicolas Barker
Organized and circulated by Art Services International.
Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture
November 21, 2003 - February 15, 2004
Curated by Marianne Aav
Thomas Jeckyll: Architect and Designer
July 17 - October 19, 2003
Curated by Susan Weber Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott
Quiet Beauty: Fifty Centuries of Japanese Folk Ceramics from the Montgomery Collection
March 27 - June 15, 2003
Curated by Robert Moes
Organized and circulated by Art Services International.
Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier: Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting, and Photography, 1907-1922
November 22, 2002 - February 23, 2003
Curated by Stanislaus von Moos and Arthur Rüegg
Organized in collaboration with the Langmatt Museum, Baden, Switzerland, under the title Der junge Le Corbusier, March 30 - June 30, 2002.
Hungarian Ceramics from the Zsolnay Manufactory, 1853-2001
July 17 - October 13, 2002
Curated by Éva Csenkey
Utopia and Reality: Modernity in Sweden 1900-1960
March 14 - June 16, 2002
Curated by Cecilia Widenheim and Eva Rudberg
Organized by the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, as Utopi och Verklighet - Svensk Modernism 1900-1960: October 7, 2000 - January 14, 2001.
William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent
October 18, 2001 - January 6, 2002
Curated by Philip Hewat-Jaboor and Bet McLeod
Tour dates: The Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, February 5 - April 14, 2002
Print, Power and Persuasion: Graphic Design in Germany 1890 - 1945
May 23 - August 26, 2001
Curated by Jeremy Aynsley and Marianne Lamonaca
Organized by The Wolfsonian - Florida International University
Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference
November 15, 2000 - April 8, 2001
Curated by Pat Kirkham
Roman Glass: Reflections of Everyday Life
March 23 - June 11, 2000
Curated by Stuart J. Fleming
Organized by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer
November 17, 1999 - February 27, 2000
Curated by Susan Weber Soros
Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at The Saint-Cloud Manufactory, ca. 1690-1766
July 14 - October 23, 1999
Curated by Bertrand Rondot
Organized in collaboration with the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France
Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco
March 10- June 13, 1999
Curated by Stefanie Walker
Tour Dates: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, July 21 - October 3, 1999
India: A Jewelry Spectrum
October 8, 1998 - January 31, 1999
Curated by Oppi Untracht
Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-1997
February 27 - June 14, 1998
Curated by Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine
Organized in collaboration with the Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki
Masterworks: Italian Design, 1960-1994
Part 1, 1960s - 1970s: April 10 - June 29, 1997
Part 2, 1980s -1990s: July 15 - September 21, 1997
Curated by R. Craig Miller
Organized by the Denver Art Museum
The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847
October 17, 1997 - February 1, 1998
Curated by Tamara Préaud
Organized in collaboration with the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres.
The Brillance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939: An Alliance of Art and Industry
November 21, 1996 - March 2, 1997
Curated by Gunnel Holmér, Derek E. Ostergard, and Nina Stritzler-Levine
Josef Frank, Architect and Designer: An Alternative Vision of the Modern Home
May 9 - July 21, 1996
Curated by Nina Stritzler-Levine
A.W.N. Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival
November 9, 1995 - February 25, 1996
Curated by Paul Atterbury
English Silver: Masterpieces by Omar Ramsden from the Campbell Collection
March 18 - May 14, 1995
Curated by Lynn Springer Roberts
Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and David A. Hanks and Associates, Inc.
Arthur J. Stone 1847-1938, Designer and Silversmith
March 18 - May 14, 1995
Curated by Elenita C. Chickering
Organized by the Boston Athenæum
Crosscurrents of Modernism: Selections from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
November 18, 1994 - February 26, 1995
Curated by Derek E. Ostergard and Nina Stritzler-Levine
Baroque Splendor: The Art of the Hungarian Goldsmith
August 25 - October 30, 1994
Curated by Judit Hajtó-Kolba
Organized in collaboration with The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington D.C., and the Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary
Cast Iron from Central Europe, 1800-1850
May 25 - August 7, 1994
Curated by Elisabeth Schmuttermeier and Derek E. Ostergard
Organized in collaboration with the MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Objets d'Usage & de Goût dans les Premières Années du XIX Siècle
March 11 - May 8, 1994
Curated by Marie-Noël de Gary and Geneviève Musin
Organized by the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris
Brodures et Frises Papiers Peints
March 11 - May 8, 1994
Curated by Véronique de Bruignac
Organized by the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris
Along the Royal Road: Berlin and Potsdam in KPM Porcelain and Painting, 1815-1848
October 13, 1993 - January 30, 1994
Curated by Winfried and Ilse Baer
In collaboration with the Verwaltung der Staatlichen Schlösser und Gärten Berlin.
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