Nona Faustine: Time-Traveling Goddess
The Brooklyn-born photographer’s solo show at the Brooklyn Museum provides an entry point into ongoing series that engage with race and the power and resilience of Black women.
The Brooklyn-born photographer’s solo show at the Brooklyn Museum provides an entry point into ongoing series that engage with race and the power and resilience of Black women.
Sheila Metzner: Looking Backward, Dreaming Forward
A Getty Museum exhibition showcases Sheila Metzner’s luscious, languorous floral and fashion studies.
A Getty Museum exhibition showcases Sheila Metzner’s luscious, languorous floral and fashion studies.
Reframing Portraits for the Black Gaze
In two different exhibitions, Mickalene Thomas explores issues of representation and agency in her own work and that of others.
In two different exhibitions, Mickalene Thomas explores issues of representation and agency in her own work and that of others.
Contemporary African Photography at the Tate straddles cultural, ethnic, and geographic diversities
A capacious, informative exhibition shows photography to be a formidable tool in excavating the past and looking forward.
A capacious, informative exhibition shows photography to be a formidable tool in excavating the past and looking forward.
Isaac Julien’s Pictures and Progress
Reinterpreting and expanding the conventions of film and photography, Isaac Julien examines the marred history of race relations in the U.S. through the life of Frederick Douglass.
Reinterpreting and expanding the conventions of film and photography, Isaac Julien examines the marred history of race relations in the U.S. through the life of Frederick Douglass.
Ordinary People: Judith Joy Ross’s Portraits
A retrospective now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art brings together 200 photographs characterized by empathy and restraint.
A retrospective now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art brings together 200 photographs characterized by empathy and restraint.
Nina Katchadourian’s Wunderkammer at the Morgan Library & Museum
The endlessly curious artist mines the Morgan’s collection for this intimate, engaging exhibition.
The endlessly curious artist mines the Morgan’s collection for this intimate, engaging exhibition.
Ming Smith’s Transcendent Vision
The pioneering photographer gets a long-awaited solo show at MoMA.
The pioneering photographer gets a long-awaited solo show at MoMA.