Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray: Rendez-Vous
May 30–August 25, 2024
Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray: Rendez-Vous offered a rare glimpse into the life and mind of McQueen and introduced French photographer Ann Ray (b. 1969) to audiences in the United States. With a partnership built on friendship and trust, Ray was provided unfettered access to McQueen’s world and captured everything from contemplative moments in the design studio to models posing backstage. In total, she shot forty-three collections over the course of thirteen years, creating a massive body of work and an indelible record of McQueen’s creative process at his namesake label and during his tenure as creative director at Givenchy.
¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
June 28–September 29, 2024
¡Printing the Revolution! examined how graphic arts have been utilized to build community, engage the public around social concerns, and wrestle with shifting notions of the term Chicano, which Mexican Americans defiantly adopted in the 1960s and 1970s as a sign of a new political and cultural identity. During this period, Chicano activist-artists forged a remarkable movement of politically engaged printmaking rooted in cultural expression and social justice movements that remain vital today. This exhibition, for the first time, paired historical civil rights–era prints alongside works from the 1980s to the present.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold
September 27, 2024–January 5, 2025
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold included over three decades of the artist’s work in photography, installation, video, painting, and performance. Hauntingly beautiful and emotionally charged, Behold showed how Campos-Pons’s layered identity as a Cuban woman with ancestral roots in the Yoruba culture of West Africa as well as in Spain and China inform her multimedia, sensorial artworks. Evoking the history of diaspora, displacement, and migration, as well as labor and race, and motherhood and spirituality, Behold invited us to join with the artist in the vital search for meaning and connectivity.
Journey through Japan: Myths to Manga
October 25, 2024–February 16, 2025
Designed with our younger audience in mind, yet fun and fascinating for all ages, this exhibition went on a colorful, atmospheric exploration through Japan to show how popular stories have shaped the country’s art, design, and technology across the centuries. Divided into four thematic sections—Sky, Sea, Forest, and City—it presented over 150 historic and contemporary objects, ranging from animated movies, origami, and ukiyo-e woodblock prints to dolls, robots, and youth fashion.
Photography by John Schweikert
