AT A GLANCE

Michael Richards

Are You Down?

Through July 23, 2023

East Building, Level B, Joyce W. Pope Gallery, Gallery 3, Photography Gallery 1 (Julian T. Baker Jr. Gallery) and 2

(Allen G. Thomas Jr. Gallery)

Michael Richards’s visionary sculptures and installations gesture toward both repression and reprieve from social injustices and the simultaneous possibilities of uplift and downfall, often in the context of the historic and ongoing oppression of Black people.

Michael Richards: Are You Down? is his largest retrospective to date.

Participating Sponsor: Workplace Options

Ruth E. Carter

Afrofuturism in Costume Design

Through August 6, 2023

East Building, Level B, Meymandi Exhibition Gallery

Ticket purchase required; free with membership

Academy Award–winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter has defined generations through her work, creating costumes for Black Panther, Malcolm X, Selma, and Do the Right Thing. Her vibrancy and attention to detail is integral to translating stories of race, politics, and culture to the big screen. Participating Sponsor: Workplace Options

The Surrealist Impulse

August 12, 2023–January 28, 2024

East Building, Level B, Photography Gallery 2

(Allen G. Thomas Jr. Gallery)

The early 20th-century movement surrealism invigorated artists and thinkers to explore dreams, the irrational and uncanny, and the poetic in their works. These principles reverberate in the 21st century, where surrealism remains a chief inspiration. In this exhibition artworks are brought together to illustrate a surrealist impulse that exists in contemporary art.

Kristina Rogers, Untitled, 1993, gelatin silver print (diptych), each: 11 × 14 in., Gift of the artist's family