"The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip" opened Feb. 27 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and will be on display through May 30.
The exhibition is organized by the Aperture Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit arts institution founded in 1952 by a group of photographers including Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange. Aperture's David Campany and Denise Wolff curated the show, which is based in large part on Campany's 2014 book of the same title.
The exhibition collects more than 100 images from 19 photographers taken across America from the 1950s to today. While admission to the museum's main collection is free, general admission to "The Open Road" costs $10. Crystal Bridges members and those under 18 get in for free. Admission is free from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursdays.
Additional resources complementing the exhibition include the opportunity for visitors to add their own road trip photos to a digital map in the exhibition by posting an image via Twitter or Instagram; guided exhibition tours from 1 to 2 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays; and a Spotify playlist which can be found at tinyurl.com/h539g2p (a free Spotify account is required).
-- Philip Martin
Style on 03/13/2016