BGC Gallery

Main Gallery

Located in a town house on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the Main
Gallery is an intimate environment for viewing exhibitions. The Main
Gallery presents three exhibitions annually, curated by members of
the faculty, staff, or curatorial consultants with specialized expertise.
These exhibitions consider issues and ideas that exist largely outside the
established canons of art history. For example, the BGC has organized
monographic exhibitions that examined specific architect-designers
and thematic ones addressing the role of women in the history of 20thcentury
design. Other exhibitions have revealed the meaning of objects
as signifiers of various cultural and national identities.

Fall 2012

Circus and the City

September 13, 2012 - February 3, 2013
Curated by Kenneth L. Ames, Professor, BGC; Kory Rogers, Curator, Shelburne Museum; Susan Weber, Director and Founder, BGC; and Matthew Wittmann, Curatorial Fellow, BGC

Spring 2013

The Georges Hoentschel Collection Between Paris and New York (working title)

Organized in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA).
Curated by Deborah Krohn, Associate Professor, BGC; Ulrich Leben, Visiting Professor and Special Exhibitions Curator, BGC; and Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, Curator, MMA

Fall 2013

William Kent, 1686-1748: Designing Georgian Britain

Organized in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A).
Curated by Susan Weber Director and Founder, BGC and Julius Bryant, Keeper of Word and Image Department, V&A

Spring 2014

Artek (working title)

Curated by Nina Stritzler-Levine, Chief Curator, BGC

Fall 2014

Swedish Wooden Toys

Curated by Amy Ogata, Associate Professor, BGC; Peter Pluntky, Independent Toy Historian, Stockholm; and Susan Weber, Director and Founder, BGC

Spring 2015

Ex Voto

Curated by Ittai Weinryb, Assistant Professor, BGC

Fall 2015

Charles Percier (working title)

Organized in collaboration with the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris. Curated by Jean-Philippe Garric, Conseiller scientifique pour l’histoire de l’architecture, INHA and Ulrich Leben, Visiting Professor and Special Exhibitions Curator, BGC

Spring 2016

Kitchen and Table in Renaissance Europe

Curated by Deborah Krohn, Associate Professor, BGC

Focus Gallery

The Focus Gallery presents exhibitions devoted to imagining new ways of thinking about and teaching the history of the material world, creating innovative approaches to exhibition display and interpretation, and exhibition-related programs including study days, concerts, walking tours, family days, community festivals, and open houses for educators devoted to enhancing knowledge and awareness of the material world from antiquity to the contemporary that complement the mission of the Bard Graduate Center as a leading research center for studies of material culture.

Fall 2012

Styles and Practices of Technical Images

September 20, 2012 - January 27, 2013
Curated by Visiting Assistant Professor Nina Samuel (Das Technische Bild)

Winter 2013

Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition of 1935
Curated by Erin Hasinoff, BGC-AMNH Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Anthropology

Fall 2013

Reconstructing Ancient Furniture
Curated by Professor Elizabeth Simpson and BGC students

Winter 2014

Visualizing New York City
Curated by Professor David Jaffee and BGC students

Fall 2014

Before "Orientalism" Europe's Polyglot Bibles (1500-1650) in Context
Curated by Peter N. Miller and BGC students

Winter 2015

West Side Story
Curated by Professor Pat Kirkham and BGC students