Moving Pictures American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910
From the website: New technologies often inspire artistic innovation. Moving Pictures explores links between the earliest movies and other American visual art forms at the turn of the twentieth century. The first exhibition to integrate cinema into a history of American art, the show reveals how motion pictures impacted perception, visual representation, and definitions of reality. Films—consisting mostly of short, one-to-two minutes of "real life" footage—are installed alongside artworks, providing provocative juxtapositions and stimulating new insights into our understanding of nascent cinema as well as older mediums such as painting, drawing, and printmaking.
