The exhibition reappraises the work of Art Nouveau pioneer Alphonse Mucha (b. 1860, Ivančice, Moravia, Austrian Empire; d. 1939, Prague, Czechoslovakia) and explores his impact on graphic art since the 1960s. This exhibition provides an opportunity to survey the development of Mucha's style, and to explore how his art was rediscovered by later generations of artists. Mucha was a key influence on Psychedelic Art of the 1960s-1970s, as well as on a wide range of visual culture from the late 20th century to today, exemplified by American comics, Japanese manga, and street murals.
Exhibition: Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line
From 22.02.2025 to 18.05.2025
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
www.phillipscollection.org/event/2025-02-22-timeless-mucha-magic-line
Organised by The Mucha Foundation
Exhibition: Munch: The Inner Cry
From 11.02.2025 to 02.06.2025
Palazzo Bonaparte, Rome
www.mostrepalazzobonaparte.it/mostra-munch.php
Organised by Palazzo Bonaparte in collaboration with the Munch Museum in Oslo
Exhibition: L'art est dans la rue (Art Is in the Street)
From 18.03.2025 to 06.07.2025
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/expositions
Organised by Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay's first exhibition devoted to the spectacular development of the illustrated poster in colour in the late nineteenth century.
Including a unique set of works by the masters of poster art, the display shows how this medium was elevated "to the rank of mural painting", as the Nancy art critic Roger Marx once put it. This dive into the golden age of the illustrated poster also focuses on the rise of mass consumption and mass culture, of which poster art was both a vector and a symptom. Drawings, works of art, photographs and paintings all evoke the effervescent world of the street as a stage during the Belle Époque, whose image was in part shaped by these posters.
On show from 18 March to 6 July 2025, the exhibition "Art Is in the Street" is organised in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It is co-curated by Élise Dubreuil, Chief Curator of Decorative Arts at Musée d'Orsay, and Sandrine Maillet, in charge of poster collections at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, as well as Anne-Marie Sauvage, general library curator, and Clémence Raynaud, Chief Curator of Architecture at Musée d'Orsay.