Exhibitions
Inaugurated in November 1996, this ongoing exhibition is periodically updated with works from The Wolfsonian collection.
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This installation explores how humans record and commemorate disaster, tragedy, and loss through the visual arts.
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Explores how American artists working in the early twentieth century presented in their work both the manifest and mundane—the remarkable and routine—aspects of American life.
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The posters and other advertisements demonstrate a variety of visual strategies and techniques used by designers in the twentieth century.
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This installation provides compelling examples of how designers in Europe and America responded to new ideas and attitudes about health, hygiene, and efficiency in the home...
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January 27 2012 - May 21 2012
This installation will feature a selection of wine advertisements and publications from The Wolfsonian's rare book and special collections library.
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April 19 2012 - August 19 2012
Periodical illustrations and books from the Caribbean phase of the Spanish-American War explore how the American and British public formed a visual impression of the war.
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May 11 2012 - September 09 2012
Presents a comprehensive overview of the diverse visual strategies employed by government agencies, community activists, grassroots organizations, and motivated citizens to...
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November 15 2012 - March 31 2013
This exhibition explores a selection of “artists’ postcards” from 1907 to 1919 made by the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop).
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January 25 2012 - April 15 2012
Examines the central role colonization of Africa played in shaping Italian national identity during the Fascist era (1922–1943)
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November 25 2011 - March 26 2012
Provides a vibrant picture of design in France from the 1940s to today.
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November 04 2011 - February 22 2012
A site-specific installation based on an African market stall created by artists Heidi Chisholm and Sharon Lombard.
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August 25 2011 - January 24 2012
This display highlights eye-catching statistical graphics from the first half of the twentieth century in The Wolfsonian’s rare book and special collections library.
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April 15 2011 - August 14 2011
Explores the evolution of transport posters in twentieth-century Britain, and features outstanding examples executed for both the London Underground and the British railways.
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April 01 2011 - June 14 2011
The works on view chart the channels through which such alignments are inscribed in the rudiments of language—set into speech and written into thought.
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January 28 2011 - April 17 2011
On display are various materials published surrounding the “Scottsboro Boys,” the nine “Negro” boys falsely accused by two white girls of rape.
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November 04 2010 - January 26 2011
Examines speed and its limits in the context of the transportation and workplace revolutions of the twentieth century.
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September 17 2010 - February 20 2011
Probes the powers and limits of the modern era's cult of speed in five key domains: circulation and transit; construction and the built environment; efficiency; the...
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Examines French interior design of the 1920s, focusing on limited-edition luxury portfolios created using a traditional stencil technique known in France as pochoir.
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Highlights for the first time Schultze & Weaver’s New York and Florida hotels within a broader context of twentieth-century hotel development.
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Depicts the transformation of a key Asian city after an earthquake struck Tokyo and eastern Japan with devastating force at 11:58 a.m. on September 1, 1923.
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