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BGC Gallery reopens this September with the return of Sèvres Extraordinaire: Sculpture from 1740 until Today, originally slated for fall 2024.

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The Bard Graduate Center Gallery produces multiple exhibitions and publications each year, serving as a vital center of learning and a catalyst for engagement in the interrelated disciplines of decorative arts, design, and material culture. The gallery is celebrated in the museum world for its longstanding legacy of landmark projects dedicated to significant—yet often understudied—figures and movements in the history of decorative arts and design; these exhibitions and publications typically represent the definitive intervention on the artists and objects they investigate. BGC Gallery is also committed to generating and supporting a vast range of diverse presentations, small and large, that challenge traditional approaches to object inquiry; these examinations of material culture explore the human experience as manifest in our creation and use of “things” of all kinds. Whether originating in internal research and expertise, or in collaboration with external subject specialists, these endeavors prioritize rigorous scholarship while seeking to adhere to the field’s highest standards in production and design.



Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 traces the development and dissemination of one of the nineteenth century’s most significant and successful ceramic innovations. This online companion explores the major themes of the Majolica Mania exhibition, situating majolica in the dynamic economic, social, and cultural contexts of the second half of the nineteenth century. Interactive features, including twelve 3D models, audio and educator’s guides, poetry, and student work, offer unique interpretations of objects from the exhibition.


This project is an online companion to the Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery May 21, 2021–January 2, 2022.
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Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915, was on view at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from September 24, 2021–January 2, 2022.

Support for the Majolica Mania website has been generously provided by Joseph Piropato and The Lee B. Anderson Memorial Foundation with special thanks to Ann Pyne and the Sherrill Foundation.

This website was created with the help of Jesse Merandy and Emma Cormack, Website Developers, and Laura Gray, Designer. Special thanks to BGC MA students Julia Carabatsos, Noah Dubay, Grace Billingslea, and Genny Schiel.