“Queer as a concept runs against all definitions,” the scholar Christoph Ribbat wrote in 2001, “all fixed meaning, forever questioning, redeploying, twisting terms, texts and itself from conventional usage.” The word isn’t just a term that describes sexual identity and orientation, it’s something bigger—a rejection of cultural norms on the whole, a loosening of rules around gender roles, sexuality, identity. In a way, the art world has always embraced the concept of queer, has always thought, metaphorically, outside the box. In this exhibition, 400 of the museum’s artworks from antiquity to today—painting, drawing, video, fashion, sculpture, and design—are displayed through a queer lens. —Elena Clavarino