Masters brings together more than twenty artists spanning the early 19th century to the present — including Andres Serrano, Balthus, Man Ray, Ai Weiwei, and Natalia LL — whose practices pushed against the social structures of their respective eras. Spanning photography, painting, sculpture, and the readymade, the works unite around a shared capacity for provocation and confrontation: Serrano's Piss Christ, Man Ray's Surrealist eroticism, Ai Weiwei's signed scratch-off lottery ticket that ceases to be art the moment it's used. Placed together, the exhibition forces a reckoning with assumptions about value, censorship, and the limits of artistic expression.
Includes work by Ernest Mancoba, Joshua Johnson, Balthus, Andres Serrano, Lorenzo Viani, Elaine de Kooning, Victor Brauner, Joseph Beuys, Man Ray, Paul Jenkins, Congo (The Chimpanzee), Sonja Mancoba, Rebecca Horn, Roberto Matta, Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe, Gerda Wegener, Ai Weiwei, Natalia LL, Richard Hambleton, and Leonora Carrington.
