Art Rock Posters That Fill the Bill
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- How to publicize an indie rock show? These days, an e-mail blast and some blog posts should suffice. Yet it turns out there are folks insistent on that prehistoric method, the poster. A survey exhibition of recent efforts -- made to illustrate concerts by the Decemberists and the White Stripes among many, many others -- finds graphic designers incorporating key cultural referents: Bauhaus (the movement, not the band), 1960s-era psychedelia and the drawings of Maurice Sendak. In the gallery's rear room, artist Jesse LeDoux has installed "The Masters of Balance," which looks to be human-scaled versions of the talking paper bags from Fandango commercials. With eyes the size of dinner plates, they're awkward charmers.
"Sweet: The Graphic Beauty of the Contemporary Rock Poster" at the Art Gallery, University of Maryland, 1202 Art-Sociology Building, University of Maryland, College Park, Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Wednesday to 6 p.m., 301-405-2763, to March 29; http:/
