: The new, $74 million renovated and expanded Indianapolis Museum
of Art (IMA) will be the first American venue for the Victoria
and Albert Museum's traveling exhibition of International Arts
and Crafts. The show will open on September 25 and run through
January, 22. It is one of the largest Arts and Crafts exhibitions
ever mounted and the first to showcase the movement's influence
in Europe, America and Japan.
C.F.A. Voysey clock, 1895-96. Courtesy the Victoria and Albert
Museum.
The Arts and Crafts movement originated in Great Britain in
the 1880s as a response to the Industrial Revolution and its
machine-dominated production. Led by theorists John Ruskin and
William Morris, the movement promoted the ideals of craftsmanship
and individual-ism along with the integration of art into everyday
life.
The exhibition will feature more than 300 objects from Great
Britain, America, Central and Northern Europe, and Japan - where
it developed as the mingei, or folk craft, movement. A variety of
objects will show how the Arts and Crafts movement influenced all
aspects of life in countries around the world.
Two reconstructed furnished interiors of the period, an American
Craftsman room inspired by Gustav Stickley, and a Japanese room
from a pavilion built for a 1928 Tokyo exhibition, are among the
highlights of the show. Other highlights include furniture by
Gustave Stickley, and objects from designers such as Josef
Hoffmann, Hamada Shoji, C.F.A. Voysey, Frank Lloyd Wright and
Rookwood Pottery.
Timed tickets are required and may be purchased by calling
888-670-3048. The IMA is at 4000 Michigan Road.
Call 317-920-2660 or go to www.ima-art.org for more
information.
