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One Fine Show: “Timeless Mucha, The Magic of Line” at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Organized in collaboration with Prague's Mucha Foundation, the exhibition gathers nearly 150 objects that track the artist from student to the inventor of "le style Mucha," before expanding into the psychedelic rock posters and comic book cover design hiswork anticipated.

In the horrible geography and chronology in which I went to college, you could tell much about a person by the posters they hung in their dorms. The jocks would always have their bikini babes, or the one with the members of t.A.T.u. kissing each other, which was said to be a powerful aphrodisiac. We intellectuals turned our nose up at that kind of thing, favoring instead posters for movies directed by the Coen Brothers or Quentin Tarantino. The art students would inevitably have the work of Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), which always manages to feel timeless, instructive and engaging to the eye.

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