Isaac Julien's video installation for the Barnes Foundation explores the intertwined histories of Albert Barnes, Alain Locke, and European and African art.
Syjuco's exhibition considered how violence is rendered visible in institutional archives, and alluded to the complexities of digital space as an archive.
Gordon Parks directed a pioneering blaxploitation film years after shooting documentary photographs of urban crime. This show sketched out their aesthetic and political relations.
Celebrated in recent survey exhibitions, Ming Smith's photographs embody a more Symbolist, Surrealist approach than those of her peers in the Kamoinge Workshop.
The centerpiece of Troy Brauntuch's exhibition is a set of thirty-two photo-engravings depicting installations of academic landscapes, neoclassical nudes, and equine statues in the marble-accented…
Around 1980, Matt Mullican began visually elaborating a cosmology of his own invention, for which he divided reality into five color-coded orders of being.
Sarah Charlesworth (1947–2013) typically worked in series, defining discrete ideas and exercising them to the point of completion or terminal exhaustion. The richest of these ideas could yield dozens…