Selassie Head

Past Exhibitions

Gridnik: Wim Crouwel and Modern Typography

A Bittersweet Decade: The New Deal in America, 1933-43

Thoughts on Democracy

Democrazy: An Installation by Francesco Vezzoli

Fashioning the Modern French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s

Agitated Images: John Heartfield & German Photomontage, 1920-1938

Meet Me at The Citrus Fair

Modernism In American Silver: 20th-Century Design

Revolutionary Tides: The Art of the Political Poster, 1914-1989

In Pursuit of Pleasure: Schultze & Weaver and the American Hotel

X: A Decade of Collecting

Evolution/Revolution: A Century of Modern Seating

Streets and Faces: Jazz Age Paris, London, Berlin, and New York

Margaret Bourke-White: The Photography of Design, 1927-1936

Weapons of Mass Dissemination: The Propaganda of War

Tokyo: The Imperial Capital

Close Up in Black: African American Film Posters

From Emperors to Hoi Polloi: Portraits of an Era, 1850-1945

The Visual Front: Posters of the Spanish Civil War

Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets

See America!

Print, Power, and Persuasion: Graphic Design in Germany, 1890-1945

Dreams and Disillusion: Karel Teige and the Czech Avant-Garde

Leading "The Simple Life": The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, 1880-1910

Depero Futurista Rome-Paris-New York, 1915-1932

Drawing the Future: Designs for the 1939 New York World's Fair

The Talk of the Town: Rea Irvin of the New Yorker

Main Street Five-and-Dimes: The Architectural Heritage of S.H. Kress & Co.

Public Works

Pioneers of Modern Graphic Design

Visionaries in Exile

Modern Dutch Posters

Culinary Culture

Wish You Were Here!

The Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885-1945

Stile Floreale:The Cult of Nature in Italian Design


FEATURED OBJECT:
Sculpture, H. M. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, c. 1937 
Sava Botzaris (Venezuelan, b. Yugoslavia, 1894–1965)
Great Britain
Bronze, iron
Credit: The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach
87.1321.6.1
Photo: Silvia Ros