Annual Review 2017

2017 IN REVIEW CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT | UNIQLO’s line of Marvel t-shirts flew off the racks in the exhibition store . Photograph: Joe Ruckli Special effects make-up artist Billie Weston gives an Auslan-interpreted talk during Up Late. Photograph: Chloë Callistemon Freelance fashion and textiles conservator Michael Marendy talks about his work on the exhibition at an after-hours talk for the 50+ program. Photograph: Brad Wagner Marvel and all related characters © MARVEL The exhibition publication — with essays by curator Amanda Slack-Smith, novelist and Marvel Comics writer Roxane Gay and US National Public Radio’s Glen Weldon — was available in three formats: softcover, hardcover and a sumptuous box set with a signed art print of the exclusive Thor: Ragnarok artwork by Marvel Studios’ Andy Park, limited to 100 copies. All three versions sold out during the exhibition. Photograph: Natasha Harth 21