The former panels, removed in 2017, featured images dedicated to Confederate Generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.
Kerry James Marshall
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How Happy I Am to Have Seen This Little Corner of America in a Museum
When it comes to the word “diversity,” what are we really referring to?
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A New Film Charts 150 Years of African-American Art
Black Is the Color, a 50-minute documentary, offers a survey of African-American art from 1867 to today.
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A Mega-Gallery Marks a Quarter Century
I remember David Zwirner Gallery back in the 1990s, before Chelsea, when the New York art world was much smaller and more manageable.
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12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017
Each of these exhibitions showed me something I had not seen before.
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Kerry James Marshall’s Largest Work Yet Honors Women in the Arts
Marshall recently unveiled a 132-foot-wide, 100-foot-tall mural that pays homage to 20 women who shaped Chicago’s cultural scene.
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From Benefit to Blockbuster, a Kerry James Marshall Painting’s Dramatic Flip
A Kerry James Marshall work originally donated to a museum’s benefit auction sold at Christie’s for a record-setting price.
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Resituating Kerry James Marshall in a Black Radical Tradition
Curators have extensively referenced the white, male, Western canon of painting, but mostly ignore the ways in which Marshall’s work fits into and extends black visual culture.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
This list barely scratches the surface of the city’s artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.
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Kerry James Marshall and the Politics of Visibility
The retrospective of the work of Kerry James Marshall demonstrates a deep knowledge of blackness and a desire to expand the world of art with it.
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The Triumph of the Chickens
Like Ralph Ellison, who did not think of the Invisible Man as a protest novel, Kerry James Marshall is interested in the nuances of invisibility, in how much goes unseen, and the many different ways willful blindness manifests itself.