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  The Wolfsonian–FIU is a museum that explores the inventive and provocative character of the modern world. Through objects and design, we reveal how the past influences the present and shapes the future.

The Big World: Alternative Landscapes in the Modern Era

August 30, 2023–May 25, 2025
The Wolfsonian–FIU @ 1001 Washington Avenue

The Big World, focusing on depictions of the land in The Wolfsonian's collection, challenges expectations of landscape art as it goes beyond bucolic scenes to reveal changing vistas of the modern era rendered in paintings, the decorative arts, and even a grand piano. The exhibition charts a course through the end of the 19th century and into the first half of the 20th, outlining the story of global growth and shifting ideas about the world around us—from pristine nature, to its radical alteration in modern urban and industrial centers, to panoramas ruined by war and environmental disregard.

Starting November 21, 2024, keep an eye out in the galleries for labels by students from FIU professor John Bailly's Honors College class. Inspired by select landscapes in The Big World, these creative writings offer new perspectives on the exhibition's themes.

Presented in connection with Bridge Deconstruction Site andThe Breath Eaters.