Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II

February 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, a document that President Roosevelt signed in 1942, two months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The order resulted in the imprisonment of 75,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry and 45,000 Japanese nationals in prison camps across the country, many being relocated far from home. Some 40 years later, the U.S. Congress formally recognized that the rights of the Japanese American community had been violated and President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing an apology and restitution to the living Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. The Wright Museum of WWII received a generous grant from to host this national traveling exhibition developed by the National Museum of American History and adapted for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

(Pledging allegiance to the flag at Raphael Weill. Public School in San Francisco, 1942. Dorothea Lange, Courtesy of National Archives)

On view: May 1 – July 7, 2019 Location: Wright Museum, Wolfeboro, NH

Complicating Agency in Photography

The concept of consent in photography is complex. Who is giving it? Who is receiving it, if anyone at all? This exhibition, curated by the Hood Museum of Art's 2017-2018 interns, addresses these questions through four themes: Self Reflections, Individuals and Identities, Public Spheres, and Global Ethics.

(Nikki S. Lee, The Ohio Project (8), 1999, Fujiflex print on paper. Purchased through the Elizabeth and David C. Lowenstein '67 Fund; 2007.59. © Nikki S. Lee)

On view through May 5, 2019 Location: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Plaster Cast Collection

On March 23, 1887, Edward Robinson, then in charge of the classical collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, accepted the appointment to select, purchase and install in the museum a collection of casts from renowned works of antiquity. Now, a hundred years later, the Slater cast collection, one of the three largest in the country, is considered by many to be the best of its kind. As one of two fine arts museums in the United States on the campus of a secondary school, the museum's role for the furtherance of teaching the humanities is as strong a commitment today as it was when the extensive cast collection was officially dedicated in November of 1888.

On view permanently Location: Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT

Gender Bending Fashion

From the runways to the streets, designers and wearers today are upending traditional ideas about men's and women's clothing. But those trends in American and European fashion are not new. This exhibition looks across a century of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion that has challenged rigid, binary definitions of dress. It features more than 60 boundary-pushing designs, presenting the work of groundbreaking contemporary designers-including Rad Hourani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alessandro Michele for Gucci, Palomo, and Rei Kawakubo-in the context of historical trends like the garconne look of the 1920s and the peacock revolution of the 1960s.

(Designed by Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons, blazer and kilt, 2012. Museum Purchase with funds donated by the Fashion council, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. private collections, and fashion houses.)

On view through August 25, 2019 Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Destination: Space!

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission's moon landing, this exhibit highlights the art and science of space exploration through three exhibit spaces. The "Sun, Earth, Universe" exhibition is about our planet, the solar system, and the universe, and the big questions NASA is trying to answer about each. In "Planetary Landscapes," Ned Kahn has created an entire family of artwork that brings vast natural processes within our reach, and sends imaginations on a journey through the cosmos. "One Giant Leap: The Moon Landing's 50th Anniversary" celebrates one of the greatest accomplishments in space exploration. Visitors can reflect on the unknown and share ideas on the next phase of space exploration. The Sun, Earth, Universe exhibition was developed in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Sun, Earth, Universe exhibitions are developed and distributed nationwide by the National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Network).

Open view through August 4, 2019 Location: Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, VT