BGC Gallery

Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010

September 21, 2012 - February 3, 2013
Curated by Matthew Wittmann, Curatorial Fellow, BGC

The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

A BGC Focus Gallery Project

September 21, 2012 - January 27, 2013
Curated by Visiting Assistant Professor Nina Samuel (Das Technische Bild)

Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones

September 15, 2011 - April 15, 2012
A collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Stephen Jones

Staging Fashion, 1880–1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke

A BGC Focus Gallery Project

January 18 - April 8, 2012
Curated by Michele Majer and graduate students at the BGC

American Christmas Cards, 1900–1960

A BGC Focus Gallery Project

September 21 - December 31, 2011
Curated by Kenneth L. Ames and graduate students at the BGC

Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010

May 18 - July 31, 2011
Curated by Earl Martin, Paul Makovsky, Angela Völker, and Susan Ward

Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

A BGC Focus Gallery Project

January 26, 2011 - April 17, 2011
Curated by Aaron Glass and graduate students at the BGC

Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties

January 26, 2011– April 17, 2011
Curated Beatrice Quette
Organized in collaboration with the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris

Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick

September 18, 2009– January 24, 2010
Curated by Marybeth De Filippis and Deborah Krohn

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

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 Stefanie 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 Stefanie 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.