American visual icons to revisit

Scheduled to begin on Sunday, June 15, 2019, “Life is a Highway: Art and American Car Culture†is the first large-scale domestic exhibition to provide a historical overview of this topic with an emphasis upon the Midwest at the Toledo Museum of Art.

     Featuring more than 100 works from the Museum’s own collection and both private and public loans, the show will bring together a diverse selection of artists to showcase the automobile’s reshaping of the 20th-century American landscape and cultural attitudes of self-expression as well as the exhibit will chart the rise of automobility as a visual icon of American identity.

With works spanning from early depictions through the Pop Artists’ portrayal of the automobile’s impact upon consumer culture to the present, the car’s image as a symbol of newness, freedom and independence, mobility and renewal will be explored.

Organized through four themes, that call attention to the social, aesthetic, environmental and industrial dimensions of its legacy, Life is a Highway: Art and American Car Culture will include a range of visual media.

Car Shows at TMA will take place on TMA Grounds from Noon to 3:00 pm. The themes of each show are: Saturday, June 15: Cars & Coffee; Saturday, July 13: Block Party ft. Jeep; Saturday, Aug. 24: American Classic Cars; and Saturday, Sept. 14: Art & Modified Cars.

For more information and tickets, call 419.255.8000 or see: www.toledomuseum.org.