BITS & BYTES: Dual exhibition at Mad Rose Gallery

Mad Rose Gallery presents “Return to Fidjrossè” and “Fred Stein: Icons of the 20th Century,” a dual exhibition.

Monica Bliss
February 13, 2026

From ‘Return to Fidjrossè,’ an artists’ collaborative situated in the Fidjrossè district of Cotonou. Courtesy Mad Rose Gallery.

Mad Rose Gallery presents ‘Return to Fidjrossè’ and ‘Fred Stein: Icons of the 20th Century,’ a dual exhibition

Millerton, N.Y.— Now through April 30th, Mad Rose Gallery presents “Return to Fidjrossè” and “Fred Stein: Icons of the 20th Century,” a dual exhibition.

“Return to Fidjrossè” explores the art of the West African nation of Benin. The exhibition emerges from a project undertaken by gallery co-founder Neal Rosenthal and the Mad Rose Foundation. It was curated from time the foundation spent in the company of an artists’ collaborative situated in the Fidjrossè district of Cotonou, Benin’s commercial capital. The featured artists include Anne-Marie Akplogan, painter; Eric Mededa, painter; Mahoussi Pierre, mixed media, painter and sculptor; Marius Dansou, sculptor; Nobel Koty, painter; and Syl Loko, mixed media.

“Fred Stein: Icons of the 20th Century” features 50 iconic portraits of the figures who shaped the 20th century by Master Photographer Fred Stein. Albert Einstein, Salvador Dali, Georgia O’Keeffe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Miller, Norman Mailer, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Fidel Castro…are a few of the illustrious figures in this living pantheon of 20th-century portraits…read more.