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Rashid Johnson

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Artists Team Up With Venus Williams to Save Nina Simone’s Home

Avatar photo by Taylor Michael March 13, 2023March 13, 2023

An upcoming benefit auction will include artworks by Adam Pendleton, Ellen Gallagher, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, and more.

Posted inNews

New LaGuardia Terminal Will Feature Art by Six New York Artists

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu February 23, 2022February 24, 2022

Long disdained by travelers, the airport will feature new, site-specific artworks as part of an $8 billion refurbishment project.

Posted inArt

Juneteenth Performances, Art-making Workshops, and More at Creative Time’s Red Stage

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell June 15, 2021June 15, 2021

“The Red Stage has been a beautiful site for holding our shared grief and finding joy together through it all,” explains co-organizer Diya Vij.

Posted inArt

Grief and Grievance Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

A prophetic document of our time, the New Museum exhibition calls attention to the weight of Black death not because it is new or salacious but because it remains urgent.

Posted inArt

Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections

by Stephen Maine June 20, 2020November 5, 2020

“In the midst of a contagion that threatens our way of life, isolates us remorselessly from family and friends, and breeds fear and paranoia, I find these pieces grounding.”

Posted inArt

Why the Art and Design Details of Rashid Johnson’s Native Son Matter

by Beandrea July April 8, 2019April 8, 2019

The 2019 adaptation of Richard Wright’s classic novel, with production design by Akin McKenzie, feels like a complete aesthetic reimagining of Wright’s 20th-century source material.

Posted inIn Brief

Rashid Johnson’s Native Son Adaptation Acquired by HBO Ahead of Sundance Premiere

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber January 25, 2019January 25, 2019

This adaptation of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son is the visual artist’s first feature film.

Rashid Johnson, Plateaus (detail), 2014, Installation view, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France. Photo by Marc Domage
Posted inSponsored

Provocations: Rashid Johnson and Hedges, Edges, Dirt Explore Nativism, and Expressions of Power

by Virginia Commonwealth University (VCUarts) October 19, 2018

Two new exhibitions now open at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, VA.

Posted inArt

Kehinde Wiley’s Pantheon of Black Artists

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney June 9, 2017June 9, 2017

In his new show at Sean Kelly Gallery, the artist has begun to create a register of contemporary black visual artists.

Marina Abramovic appears in Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (photo by Ken Ng)
Posted inFilm

A Documentary Introduction to the Art World, with Star Power and Obvious Ideas

by Alina Cohen April 25, 2017April 25, 2017

Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World, showing at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a successful crash course in the forces shaping the art market that fails to go deeper.

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A Weighty Rashid Johnson Show that Doesn’t Take Off

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney September 26, 2016

The dream embedded in the hymn “I’ll Fly Away” is rest — a cessation of struggle, labor, drudgery.

Posted inArt

Reviewing the Responses to MoMA’s Divisive Painting Survey

by Anne Sherwood Pundyk March 19, 2015March 19, 2015

As news of art fairs and Bjork took the spotlight earlier this month, I lingered on the Museum of Modern Art’s The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, up through early April.

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