Cindy Sherman, Madame de Pompadour Née Poisson (1721–1764) covered tureen with tray (1990). Glazed porcelain, photo-transfer (silkscreen), painted-platinum decoration. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Photo: Matt Flynn.
The curators of Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730–2008 have gathered an impressive collection of well-known objects from Europe and the United States to showcase the curving beauty of the eighteenth-century Rococo and of later designs with similarly sinuous lines. The show was mounted by members of the Cooper-Hewitt curatorial staff, including Sarah Coffin, Gail Davidson, and Ellen Lupton, with Penelope Hunter-Stiebel as a guest curator. The focus is on the formal elements of the Rococo,...
