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BGC Gallery will resume its exhibition programming this September with the return of Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today, originally slated for fall 2024.
Bard Graduate Center is an advanced graduate research institute in New York City dedicated to the cultural histories of the material world. Our MA and PhD degree programs, Gallery exhibitions, research initiatives, scholarly publications and public programs explore new ways of thinking about decorative arts, design history, and material culture.

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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.



Bard Graduate Center’s first student-curated exhibition, Crosscurrents of Modernism: Selections from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts brought together more than 80 works by some of the most important figures of the modernist era.

Selections of furniture, ceramics, silver, glass, book bindings, and jewelry showcased the work of architects and designers including Emilie Galle, Eileen Gray, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Josef Hoffmann, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The exhibition explored the variety of aesthetic expressions these individuals produced, some based on indigenous concepts and historical precedents, others based on models borrowed from other cultures.

Organized in conjunction with Bard Graduate Center’s academic program, with students developing the exhibition’s primary concept, themes, and installation design, Crosscurrents of Modernism was on view from November 18, 1994–February 26, 1995.
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