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Featuring the following special exhibitions:

Explore the concepts of identity and celebrity from two very different perspectives. Experience this groundbreaking dual exhibition comprised of photographs of Marilyn Monroe in I Wanna Be Loved By You alongside 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century Japanese woodblock prints in Strong Women, Beautiful Men. Discover the vast differences and startling similarities in how these portraits depict the identities of not only the subjects and the artists, but also their respective public personas.

I Wanna Be Loved By You
Photographs of Marilyn Monroe from the Leon and Michaela Constantiner Collection
The photographs in this exhibition trace the life of screen legend Marilyn Monroe from the 1940s when she was Norma Jean Baker, until a few weeks before her death in 1962. She become "Marilyn Monroe" for the camera lens, but the photographs truly became her fantasy world that had always filled her dreams. How do photographs create an identity? Here we see how the myth born as Marilyn becomes, in these images, the film goddess that is part of her reputation today.

Strong Woman, Beautiful Men
Japanese Portrait Prints from the TMA
Canaday Gallery
This exhibition of 20th century woodblock prints and rarely seen 18th and 19th century images focuses on Japanese portraiture. Have you collected a picture of a favorite entertainer or athlete? The subject matter for these Japanese prints falls into a few distinct categories, the most popular of which were portraits of actors or yakusha-e and portraits of beautiful women or bijin-ga. Both were considered public figures and the collecting of these prints became a national obsession in Japan, and later in Europe and he United States. This exhibition will look directly into the faces of this form of Japanese popular culture.

Being Modern: Fashion, Art, and Identity, 1890-1940
Works on Paper Gallery
Fashion has been a tool for expressing identity for centuries, but few periods rival the revolutionary social change of the "Modern Age" of the late 1800s and early 1900s. From bohemians at the Moulin Rouge to suffragettes to Betty Boop, Being Modern examines this electric era through its fashion. Stroll through a fashion flashback that includes posters, fashion plates, costume designs, photographs, and book illustrations by artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, and Edward Steichen.

About Face
Hitchcock Gallery
To complement the two major exhibitions, Strong Women, Beautiful Men and I Wanna Be Loved By You, TMA exhibits portraits of famous figures from our collection, including Sarah Bernhardt, Ernest Hemingway, Gloria Swanson, Pablo Picasso, and Art Tatum. With this focused installation, discover how artists communicate the concept of "celebrity" to the viewer and to history. Lose yourself in this sea of faces and ask yourself, what facets of these projected identities are real and which are fabrications?

For more info: www.toledomuseum.org/