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In the Colbert Chair

BFA Fine Arts Department faculty member David Ross was a guest on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report on Thursday, February 11. Ross, who has played a prominent role in the museum world since 1971, serving as the director of both the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, spoke with host Stephen Colbert about the history of posters for the Olympic Games. After Ross demonstrated the disappearance of the heroic figure in contemporary Olympic posters, Colbert unveiled his proposed poster for the Vancouver 2010 games. Designed by artist Shepard Fairey, the poster features an attempted reemergence of the heroic figure: an illustration of Colbert riding a bald eagle. Click the image below to view the interview segment with Ross or visit ColbertNation.com to view the entire episode.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 at 2:58 pm and is filed under BFA Fine Arts, Faculty, Press. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

One Response to “In the Colbert Chair”

  1. Visual Arts Briefs » Blog Archive » Olympic Icons Says:
    March 1st, 2010 at 9:59 am

    [...] Another member of the SVA community, BFA Fine Arts Department faculty member David Ross, recently talked about the Olympic posters with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. Read the original post here. [...]