The exhibit is called “Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the birth of American Television” and it’s a first of its kind. It’s truly a riveting exploration of how television in its formative years adopted modernism as a source of inspiration.  

Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County  Maurice Berger curated this eye-opening event.

“This exhibition is really about the early years of television and how young producers, writers, and network executives were in search of inspiration. I mean the medium had no models,” Berger told Miami CBS4’s Lisa Petrillo.

"Maybe you were a "Mad Men" fan, or you were addicted to "Breaking Bad", or you’re losing sleep over the fate of Frank and Claire. If so, then maybe you think that we’re in a golden age of television. For years, TV was considered the lowest of low art. Back in 1961, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Newton Minow, described television as a “vast wasteland.” There’s plenty of trash on TV these days, but also, some of the world’s finest work in video and film. The connection between high art and the origins of TV is the subject of a new book that accompanies an exhibition that is currently at the Jewish Museum in New York."

CADVC Research Professor Maurice Berger's Race Stories column on the Lens Blog of the New York Times focuses on the monumental survey of Latin American Photography, Urbes Murantes -- Mutant Cities, opening today, May 16,2014 at the International Center of Photography in New York. 

Berger calls this "an extraordinary and historic exhibition."