Dark Fairy Tales

We have an awesome new exhibit at the Frist called Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination. Our chief curator, Mark Scala, conceptualized this exhibit. It took about three years to realize. Fairy Tales, with their presumed innocent nature, actually convey many disturbing qualities about people, behavior, and society. Many convey moral and instructional guideposts for initiates into a culture. One such story, that is represented in the collection, is Kiki Smith's renditions of the Little Red Riding Hood tales.