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The Rose Art Museum will be closed for the summer session as we prepare our fall 2010 exhibition.

   

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New Exhibition for Fall 2010: James Rosenquist
Opens Wednesday, September 22, 6-8pm

Celebrated pop artist James Rosenquist will exhibit several of his exuberant billboard-sized murals in the Foster Gallery, with an accompanying display of source material and selections of the artist's work from the Rose Art Museum's esteemed collection.  Rosenquist's long history with the Rose gives this exhibition special weight as the Museum moves forward into an exciting new year of arts and programming.  The exhibition will open in late September 2010.

Rosenquist's distinctive collage approach to Pop Art was informed by his early career as a billboard painter.  Coming up alongside other Pop artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist works in the juxtaposition of recognizable imagery from popular culture, reconfiguring them in compositions that are often simultaneously humorous and deeply challenging, inviting the viewer to reexamine the meaning of imagery from everyday life in an often monumental scale.

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Image:  James Rosenquist, The Stowaway Peers Out at the Speed of Light
(2000, oil on canvas, 17' x 46')

This exhibition replaces the previously announced Atmospheric Conditions, which has been postponed.

Critical Acclaim for "Works from the Collection"

Boston Globe review - November 5, 2009, by Sebastian Smee

Providence Journal review - January 10, 2009, by Bill Van Siclen

Watch a tour of the exhibition with Director of Operations Roy Dawes here.

For information regarding tours for groups of 12 or more, please contact Brian Friedberg at
781.736.3432 or email bfriedbe@brandeis.edu

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Untitled, 2001. Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy of the artists and Luhring Augustine, New York.

"The Rose at Brandeis: Works from the Collection”

Through June 20, 2010, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University will feature its renowned collection, which includes modern and contemporary masterworks by some of the 20th century’s most revered artists, in an historic exhibition and catalogue. The wide-ranging show, entitled “The Rose at Brandeis: Works from the Collection” opens Oct. 28 at 6pm, and will present the breadth of the collection by including pieces from dozens of artists who represent different historical periods, from Willem de Kooning, to Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Max Weber, Cindy Sherman, Stuart Davis, Frank Stella, Milton Avery, Hans Hoffman and Elsworth Kelley, among others.

For more information, visit our Exhibition Page or view the press release here.

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The Rose Art Museum Collection Catalog

Published in the fall of 2009, this is the first catalog to showcase the permanent holdings of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. The Rose's modern art holdings are notable, particularly with American works of the 1960's.

For more information, visit our Catalog Page or purchase here.

Image Credits: (left) Florine Stettheimer, Music, 1920, oil on canvas, 69 x 50.5 x 1.75 inches, Gift of Joseph Solomon, New York. (center) Dominic McGill, Project for a New American Century, 2004, graphite on paper, 80 inches by 65 feet, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA, Gift of Michael Black and Melody Douros, courtesy of the artist and Derek Eller Gallery. (right) Marsden Hartley, Musical Theme, 1912-13, Oil on canvas, 39.38 x 31.75 inches, Gift of Mr. Samuel Lustgarten, Sherman Oaks, California.

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The Rose is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.