Goth is the world’s biggest subculture. A lifestyle steeped in an undefined yearning for the dark side of life. The exhibition GOTH – Designing Darkness looks for the wellspring of the Goth scene to present two centuries of a cultural history packed with dramatic imaginings, ominous design and melancholic art. In the heart of historic Den Bosch, with its medieval and neo-Gothic monuments, GOTH – Designing Darkness also shows how this dark subculture is given visual shape today. Such darkness as was never before seen in a museum…

This piece was commissioned for presentation to Madame Sarah Bernhardt by Maurice Grau on December 9, 1896.

A one-day symposium generously supported by Barrie and Deedee Wigmore to mark the opening of the refurbished galleries of Nineteenth-Century Art at the Ashmolean Museum.

An exhibition, co-curated by Catherine Futter (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) and Jason T. Busch (Carnegie Museum of Art), which highlights extraordinary decorative arts and design shown at world's fairs from 1851 to 1939, representing the pinnacle of artistic and industrial ingenuity. Includes dozens of furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass, textiles, and jewellery, many never before seen. Spanning the most dynamic period in craftsmanship and manufacturing history, the exhibition is organised chronologically and thematically, with the overarching premise of innovation. Works exemplify technological and scientific invention, cross-cultural influence, national pride, modernism and historicism.

Organised in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts re-examines the world of the maharajas and their extraordinarily rich culture. It spans the period from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, bringing together over 250 magnificent objects, many being lent from India's royal collections for the first time. It examines the changing role of the maharajas within a social and historical context and reveals how their patronage of the arts, both in India and Europe, resulted in splendid and beautiful objects symbolic of royal status, power and identity.

This exhibition, spanning the fifty years from 1867 to 1917, was the first devoted to the influence of Japanese works of art on Western jewellers and goldsmiths including Falize, Boucheron, Fouquet, Gaillard, Vever, Lalique, Cartier, Tiffany, Gorham, Elkington, Wolfers, and Fabergé. Some 160 jewels, objects and original designs assembled from public and private collections were shown alongside photographs of related Japanese source material.

Curated by the world's leading scholars, this exhibition focused on the master glassmaker Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933) and his outstanding contribution to the design and technology of glass. His daring creations are celebrated for the spectacular effects of colour and light he achieved. Drawing on the finest collections in Europe, North America, and Russia, the exhibition featured 180 works, including a wide range of glass vases in incredible shapes, a series of spectacular lamps, some paintings, mosaics, enamels and jewellery, as well as original drawings from the Tiffany studios and period photographs.

The first comprehensive touring exhibition and examination of Louis C. Tiffany's work in the United States in decades, this exhibition featured more than 120 works including selections of the artist's classic stained-glass windows and Tiffany lamps. It presented pieces and material in a fresh light, emphasising the beauty inherent in Tiffany's art. Its aim was to demonstrate the enduring quality of Tiffany's finest art, present works that defined Tiffany as an eclectic artist engaged in a dialogue with the leading reform movements of the time – the Aesthetic Movement, the Arts and Crafts movement and Art Nouveau, and to trace Tiffany's development as an artist, particularly in glass, where his greatest accomplishments occurred. The objects in the exhibition were arranged according to themes that run through Louis Comfort Tiffany's work – nature, the Near, Middle and Far East, antiquities and archaeology, and abstraction.

Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama was the first major museum exhibition ever devoted to the great French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923). She embodied the art of the Belle Epoque and this exhibition illuminated the life and art of this remarkable performer through over 250 spectacular and rarely seen objects in all forms of media – painting, sculpture, photography, costumes, stage designs, Art Nouveau theatre posters and jewellery, her furniture and personal effects, as well as a recording of her voice and selected films in which she starred. Drawing on public and private collections in America and Europe, the exhibition explored celebrity, theatrical style, biography, politics, fashion, and taste.

This exhibition was organised to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of one of the most famous glassmakers of all time, Emile Gallé. It highlighted the artist as one of the leading proponents of the Art Nouveau movement that swept across Europe and North America in the late nineteenth century.