Kandy G. Lopez
An Afro-Caribbean American artist who uses fiber and yarn as a painter's medium, creating large-scale portraits of her own community. Her work translates identity and "swagger" into texture as much as into image.

Isaac Julien, Statues Never Die (Once Again... Statues Never Die), 2022, inkjet print on Canson Platine Fiber Rag, 150 × 200 cm. © the artist.

Julien's work has always dealt in queer identity refracted through time, desire that has to travel through archive, screen, and history before it becomes visible.

Storm is Romain Gavras's first music video in years, and it captures something true about where masculinity stands right now: fragile, contested, not settled into any single definition.

George Platt Lynes, Untitled (Tanaquil Leclercq) c. 1950. Copyright: Digital Image © Whitney Museum of American Art.

George Platt Lynes (1907 to 1955), a new addition to the collection, was a celebrated fashion and ballet photographer who spent his career quietly photographing the male nude, work he could not publish in his lifetime and that survives largely because he placed it with the Kinsey Institute.