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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.



A multigathering codex, the precursor of today’s bound book, is a complex object with many parts that work together to protect the text and to make it easily accessible for reading. In late antiquity (3rd–8th centuries AD), a number of existing craft techniques were adapted in the making of these codices. Through drawings, photographs, and animations, this interactive project illustrates the five main processes used to make a bound codex, all of which are closely related to the craft techniques and processes used to make other common items.


This project was featured in the exhibition The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity, held at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery February 23–July 8, 2018.
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The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity was on view at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from February 23–July 8, 2018.

The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity interactive was designed by CHIPS, in collaboration with Georgios Boudalis and Jesse Merandy, Director of Digital Humanities/Exhbitions, Bard Graduate Center.

A Focus Project curated by Georgios Boudalis, Head of the Book and Paper Conservation Laboratory, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece; Research Fellow, Bard Graduate Center, Spring 2015; and Visiting Professor, Bard Graduate Center, Fall 2016. Focus Projects are small-scale academically rigorous exhibitions and publications that are developed and executed by Bard Graduate Center faculty and postdoctoral fellows in collaboration with students in our MA and PhD programs.