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The Zimmerli Art Museum Presents SPORTS AND RECREATION IN FRANCE, 1840-1900, Thru 1/11
by BWW News Desk - Oct 1, 2014

Drink more protein! Get some fresh air! Visit the employee gym! This is not advice from your favorite morning show or fitness magazine, but social messages promoted by artists in the new exhibition Sports and Recreation in France, 1840-1900 at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. As Rutgers enters its first season of competition in the Big Ten, the Zimmerli visits late 19th-century France for a glimpse at the origins of how we perceive sports today. On view through January 11, 2015, the exhibition of prints, drawings, photographs, and posters by some of the era's most recognized artists – Jules Cherét, Honoré Daumier, Hermann-Paul, and Edouard Vuillard – reveals the 19th century's burgeoning interest in competitive and recreational sports, an interest now ubiquitous in our lives and in today's print and live media.