Washington, DC – 5×5, a District-wide program of contemporary, ephemeral public art, is dedicated to exploring new perspectives on Washington DC through the lens of five curators and 25 artists. The 2014 project will begin in early September and end by December of 2014. Landmark locations for artworks will include […]
Day: September 2, 2014
Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001-2012 Ritter Art Gallery Sept 5-Oct 25, 2014
Susana Machicao, Gender Education, 2011, digital (Detail) 19.6 x 27.5 in. Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for a Digital Age 2001-2012 will be the third in a series of recent poster exhibitions that have provided an overview on international contemporary socio-political poster design, beginning in 2005 with Graphic Imperative: International Posters […]
THE MORGAN PRESENTS FIRST MAJOR U.S. EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS BY THÉODORE ROUSSEAU, MASTER OF THE BARBIZON SCHOOL The Untamed Landscape: Théodore Rousseau and the Path to Barbizon September 26, 2014 through January 18, 2015
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) was the leading figure of a group of nineteenth-century French artists who chose the wooded landscape of the Forest of Fontainebleau as their subject and would forever be known to art history as the Barbizon School. Decades before Impressionism, Rousseau and his peers developed new ways to […]