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‘Picturing the Modern Amazon’combines images of women’s physical strength – in the works of some of the biggest names in contemporary art – to explore issues of pleasure and power in both art and popular culture. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, photographs, videos, sculptures, comic books and installations by over 60 artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Renée Cox, Nicole Eisenman, Annie Leibovitz, Mary Ellen Mark, Herb Ritts, Alison Saar, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney and many others. Live performances by female bodybuilders complete an experience that celebrates the transgressive power of the pumped-up female physique.