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Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008

March 7, 2008 - July 6, 2008

Museum: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Location: 1st & 2nd Floor Galleries

This exhibition explores the Rococo style and its continuing revivals up to the present day in multiple fields, including furniture, decorative arts, textiles, and prints and drawings. The museum's first floor is devoted to the examination of 18th-century works displaying the full flowering of Rococo across Europe. The second floor is devoted to exploring Rococo elements in the pre-Revolutionary American Colonies and showcasing later reinterpretations of the Rococo style in a variety of media.

Catalogue: $55 (cloth), $40 (paper)

May 2008 Smithsonian magazine, p. 38