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Fashion Nirvana: Runway to Everyday
January 30 | May 17, 2020
From gowns to grunge, Fashion Nirvana: Runway to Everyday marks the first large-scale fashion and video art exhibition in McNay history. This innovative installation celebrates designers, models, celebrities, photographers, and video artists who made the 90s an iconic decade.
Gianni Versace, Dress, 1994. Rayon, acetate, silk, metal and rhinestones. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Kelly Ellman. Photograph: Ken Howie.
Selena Forever/Siempre Selena
January 15 | July 5, 2020
The McNay pays tribute to 90s icon, singer, designer, and Texas legend—Selena Quintanilla-Pérez—with five photographs by award-winning San Antonio photographer John Dyer.
John Dyer, Selena (detail),1992. Archival ink on paper. Collection of the artist.
What You See is What You See
November 21, 2019 | May 17, 2020
This exhibition presents the McNay’s strong collection of Minimalist and Conceptual prints, including a suite of four woodcuts by Donald Judd. Both the Minimalist and Conceptual art movements challenged the existing ideas about how art should be made, distributed, and viewed. Artists within these movements argued against the importance given to an art object, indicating it leads to an elitist art work enjoyed only be the privileged few.
Frank Stella,
Honduras Lottery Co. from Multicolored Squares, State II, 1973.
Lithograph. Collection of McNay Art Museum, Gift of John M. Parker Jr.
© Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Goya's Caprichos and the Human Condition
March 5 | June 7
Francisco Goya was a great Spanish painter and printmaker known as the last of the old masters and the first of the moderns. In his famous Los Caprichos series of prints, Goya critiques society and pokes fun at the weaknesses of the human character. Included in the exhibition are four very rare working proofs for the Caprichos, offering an opportunity to see different quality impressions from the same suite in one gallery space.
Francisco de Goya, Que Sacrificio! (What a Sacrifice) from Los Caprichos, ca. 1795. Etching, aquatint, and drypoint with ink. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Bequest of Mrs. Jerry Lawson.
Robert L.B. Tobin: Collector, Curator, Visionary
January 9 | June 7, 2020
Organized as a companion exhibition to Picasso to Hockney: Modern
Art on Stage, Painting for Performance presents an array of designs by
five visual artists who ventured into the world of performance.
David Salle and Jeff Koons, costumes for
Contempt, 1989. Courtesy of Armitage Gone! Dance, New York.
David Salle, Backdrop for
Contempt, 1989. Courtesy of Armitage Gone! Dance, New York.
Photograph by E. Lee Smith
Lead funding of the McNay’s educational programs is most generously provided by Kronkosky Charitable Foundation.
Major funding is provided by Semmes Foundation, Inc., Mays Family Foundation, and William Randolph Hearst Fund. Additional support is provided by Jack H. and William M. Light Charitable Trust, Valero Benefit for Children, and the William L. Cowden Charitable Foundation.
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