A multimedia examination of photographer and cinematographer Karl Struss, Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood celebrates his storied career and influence on American cinematography during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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Dario Robleto: The Signal highlights the artist’s multiyear exploration of the Golden Record, and features Robleto’s newly commissioned work Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, an immersive, 60-minute film based on a rare and forgotten document—the first audio recording of warfare—which was considered for inclusion on the Golden Record.
Organized by the Carter, Drawn to Nature highlights depictions of nature from the Carter’s works on paper holdings from the 18th through the 21st centuries.
Jean Shin is the next contemporary artist to transform the Museum’s first floor sloping gallery with a new site-specific commission. For her installation at the Carter, Shin will create a textile-based portrait of the Museum, through clothing items donated by the Carter’s employees and shape these elements into a large-scale wall mural with immersive hanging elements that will activate the gallery walls and ceiling.
Cowboy reexamines the popular mythologies surrounding the image and concept of the cowboy. Through the work of more than 25 artists representing Asian American, Latino, and Indigenous perspectives, the exhibition explores a wide array of themes including perceptions of masculinity and gender, assumptions about cowboys’ relationship to land, and the lived experiences of contemporary cowboys.
Drawn from the Carter's collection, Richard Hunt: From Paper to Metal highlights the artist’s prints produced at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1965 and a newly acquired sculpture, Untitled [Hybrid Forms], created in Hunt’s signature direct-welded metal technique.
Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation presents the evolution of Tamayo’s artistic technique through his works on paper, experimenting with ways to add volume and texture to a traditionally two-dimensional medium.