Past Exhibitions

Kids sitting around table working on art project with markers, guided by teacher

Community Arts Initiative: Mindful Mandalas

May 18–October 14, 2019
Kids collaborate to create art through meditation
Right side of Georgie Friedman's photograph, Foyn Iceberg No. 1, from Antarctica Series

Georgie Friedman: Fragments of Antarctica

April 13–September 16, 2019
A waning beauty in an uncertain future
Detail of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's print, Aristide Bruant in His Cabaret

Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris

April 7–August 4, 2019
Experience the celebrity culture of 19th-century Paris
Detail of the Alessandro Trincone-designed dress, Annodami

Gender Bending Fashion

March 21–August 25, 2019
A century of style that dares to break the rules

Bouchra Khalili: Poets and Witnesses

March 21–August 25, 2019
A meditation on the transmission of history through poetry
Detail of Frida Kahlo's self-portrait with hummingbird and thorn necklace

Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular

February 27–June 19, 2019
The influence of Mexican folk art on Kahlo’s work and life
Japanese print, The Gosechi Dance, from the series In Commemoration of the Enthronement (Tairei kinen)

Royal Celebrations
Japanese Prints and Postcards

February 13–July 28, 2019
Illustrating the pomp and ceremony of an imperial family line
Detail of Wassily Kandinsky's print, Kleine Welten VI

Radical Geometries
Bauhaus Prints, 1919–33

February 9–June 23, 2019
Celebrate the centenary of this groundbreaking school of modernist abstraction
Otto Steinert's photograph, Luminogramm (Light Drawing)

Postwar Visions
European Photography, 1945–60

February 9–June 23, 2019
Reviving Bauhaus abstraction after World War II
Mary Sibande's photograph, A Terrible Beauty Is Born

Made Visible
Contemporary South African Fashion and Identity

February 2–May 14, 2019
Envisioning a just future