New exhibits at Wolfsonian-FIU
Art and Design in the Modern Age
The Birth of Rome
Audio
Hear Cathy Leff on the Power of Design symposium. bitly.com/CathyLeffPOD
Hear Matthew Abess on the Bosch portrait. bitly.com/MatthewAbessBoschPortrait
Current exhibitions Art and Design in the Modern Age and The Birth of Rome grapple with notions of mankind’s perfectibility through technology. But equally present is its capacity to debase. Both are embodied in the uncanny white Bust of a Doctor sculpture, a contemporary portrait of “pill doctor” Anthony Bosch eerily lying on its side within the lantern-like Bridge Tender’s House just outside the museum entrance.