MUCHOLAPKA

MUCHOLAPKA: THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

Mucholapka is an investigation into Alphonse Mucha, Charles Richard Crane and the hidden machinery connecting art, industry, money, nationalism and the birth of the modern world. What begins with Art Nouveau and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair expands through indoor plumbing, Woods Hole, Prague, the Slav Epic, the creation of Czechoslovakia and the political catastrophes that followed.

This is not simply the story of an artist and his patron. It is the story of how money becomes culture, culture becomes identity and identity becomes politics—and how every ideal can carry the machinery of its own undoing. The fifteen-part serial follows those connections across continents and generations, while the surrounding exhibits open individual doorways into Mucha, Crane and the people, places and historical forces caught inside the flytrap.