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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.





Dachsie pull toy, introduced 1958–59 BRIO, Osby Wood, metal, plastic, string, cardboard box Private collection


Sailboat, introduced 1988 Ulf Hanses for Playsam Wood Private collection


Miniature railway set and car ferry, ca. 1963 BRIO, Osby Wood Lekoseum in collaboration with BRIO, Sweden


Labyrinth game, introduced 1946 BRIO, Osby Wood, plastic, metal, cardboard box Private collection


Doll, 1989 Ulf Hanses Wood, leather, cotton, burlap Ulf Hanses


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Streamliner Rally, introduced 1984 Ulf Hanses for Playsam Wood, metal Private collection


Puck ice hockey game, 1950–60 Aristospel AB, Stockholm Wood, metal, plastic Roma Capitale—Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali—Collezione di giocattoli antichi, CGA LS 7508


“BYGG-BRIO” building set, introduced 1953 BRIO, Osby Wood, rubber Private collection