It’s a contemporary movement that merges the delicate pastels, ornamental elegance, and sensuality of 18th-century Rococo with modernist abstraction and feminist perspectives of contemporary art.

In some sense, removing figuration distills the Rococo style to its core: In the 18th century, the Rococo emerged first in the realm of the decorative arts. In other words, florals and ornamental ...

The plan is to show how 20th century Hollywood looked at 18th century Rococo Europe in search of visual sources for everything from Sleeping Beauty’s Disneyland castle to celluloid Cinderella ...

Fast forward to 2024, and in steps Dr. Xavier Bray, director of the Wallace Collection and curator, to pair a contemporary abstract artist with a French Rococo artist from the 18th Century.