Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette, Marie Antoinette, 1938. Designer: Adrian. The Gene London Cinema Collection September 29 through December 22, 2019 Rodale, Scheller, and Fowler Galleries From the late 1920s through the 1950s, the Hollywood “dream factory” produced lavish films that offered an escape from everyday reality. Designing Hollywood explores this unique era […]
September 29, 2019, through January 5, 2020 Fuller Gallery Danny Lyon spent fourteen months photographing the daily lives of inmates from seven Texas prisons. The result was his seminal 1967–1968 prison series, which includes both empathetic portraits and images of the stark conditions of incarceration. Although Lyon took these photographs more than fifty years ago, […]
October 27, 2019, through September 30, 2020 Payne Hurd Gallery Presenting the first examples of video art to enter the Museum’s permanent collection, this series celebrates recent gifts donated by Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz. Good and Horvitz are the founders of Girls’ Club, a significant, publicly accessible private collection focused on contemporary art […]
November 24, 2019, through March 29, 2020 Kress Gallery
Opens October 9, 2019 Museum Vestibule With golden handcuffs, surveillance cameras, and Twitter birds woven into elaborate patterns, Ai Weiwei’s Golden Age wallpaper expresses the tension between government control and personal freedom in the digital age. An internationally respected artist and human rights activist, Ai is known for thoughtful and defiant works that address contemporary […]
René Lalique, Three Peonies Pendant Brooch, c. 1900. Gold, enamel, glass, diamond, Baroque pearl. Collection of Richard H. Driehaus. © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photograph by John Faier, © 2014 The Richard H. Driehaus Museum. June 7 through August 30, 2020 Scheller and Fowler Galleries Maker & Muse: […]
