The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

Most people experience gridlock from within—inside an automobile stuck in traffic. Noted architectural photographer Benny Chan (b. 1965) went above the fray to photograph Los Angeles freeways during rush hour. The result is TRAFFIC!, an installation on view through January 24, 2010 in the museum's lobby. Chan achieved ...his bird's eye perspective from a helicopter, using a purpose-built camera he designed and manufactured for this series. The four large photographs on view depict the enormous scale of Los Angeles gridlock. Chan hopes that his work documenting and exhibiting images of these congested roadways stimulates dialogue about the traffic problem in Los Angeles and elsewhere, and ultimately generates solutions.

Photograph, Tr6_104, 2007
Benny Chan (American, b. Hong Kong, 1965)
Lightjet print
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Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art
November 20, 2009–February 28, 2010

The exhibition, Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939 is co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Metropolitan Mus...eum of Art, New York. The exhibition features roughly one hundred lithographs, etchings, woodcuts and color linocuts by fourteen artists. Rhythms examines the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist printmaking from the beginning of World War I to the beginning of World War II. The principal artists represented in the exhibition are C. R. W. Nevinson, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, David Bomberg—the early followers of Futurism and Vorticism—and Claude Flight, Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power and Lill Tschudi—the later color linocut artists of London’s Grosvenor School of Art.

The Tube Train
Cyril E. Power (English, 1872–1951)
about 1934
Color linocut
*The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Partial and Promised Gift of Johanna and Leslie Garfield, 2005
*Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
*© The Estate of Cyril E Power / Courtesy Osborne Samuel Ltd, London
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Styled for the Road:
The Art of Automobile Design, 1908 to 1948
Organized by The Wolfsonian–FIU
October 16, 2009–March 14, 2010

An engaging exploration of automobile design in America from the early 1900s through the 1940s, the exhibition will examine the role of the automobile in shaping modern, American culture. On view... will be skillfully and elegantly rendered art works for concept and production cars; sculpted car models; drawings for automobile showrooms, filling stations, bridges, and roadways; and illustrations for automobile advertisements. These original artworks, together with advertising brochures, auto industry periodicals, and other printed ephemera, will provide audiences with the opportunity to explore how designers and manufacturers of automobiles influenced consumer perceptions. They will also convey the social, political, and economic context of this volatile time period characterized by the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression through the Second World War.


Brochure
Lincoln Zephyr, 1937
Lincoln Motor Company
The Wolfsonian–FIU
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