Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesSir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick […]
Glenn Kaino: Bridge
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesGlenn Kaino’s powerful aerial sculpture Bridge is comprised of 200 golden arms hanging from the ceiling of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center. Each is a casting of the outstretched right arm of Tommie […]
Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some!
Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL, United StatesFor the Smart’s 50th anniversary, South Side artist Robert Earl Paige creates a multi-part pattern-based installation and sprawling public art project that invites communities into a collective experience of space.
Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesPictures of Belonging is an unprecedented examination of these three trailblazing figures. By tracing their artistic development before, during, and after the mass incarceration and displacement of Japanese Americans during World […]
Held Impermanence (Artists Select: Katherine Simóne Reynolds)
Clyfford Still Museum 1250 Bannock St., Denver, CO, United StatesThe Clyfford Still Museum’s guest-curated exhibition, Held Impermanence (Artists Select: Katherine Simóne Reynolds), illuminates multiple competing desires held in constant tension within the Museum. Organized by award-winning filmmaker, artist, and […]