Santu Mofokeng's Train Churches shows people preaching, praying, healing, dancing, and making music while commuting on train cars in South Africa.
1980 – now
Using found objects, Rina Banerjee illuminates the obscured histories of Black and South Asian populations in New Orleans.
Rina Banerjee, commerce out of the Earth
The museum's architectural design brings the personal tragic stories of the wars of the 20th century to visitors
Daniel Libeskind, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, ...
Culture writer and curator Ekow Eshun explores monuments and hidden histories through the work of Donald Locke and Hew Locke.
The Black Atlantic: Toppled Monuments and Hidden ...
culture writer and curator Ekow Eshun considers identity and nationhood through the work of Ellen Gallagher, Lubaina Himid, John Akomfrah, Chris Ofili and Fred Wilson.
The Black Atlantic: Identity and Nationhood
Culture writer and curator Ekow Eshun looks at the afterlives of slavery in contemporary artistic practice through the work of Kara Walker, Alberta Whittle, and Hew Locke.
The Black Atlantic: Afterlives of Slavery in ...
Culture writer and curator Ekow Eshun searches for a definition of the Black Atlantic, drawing on the works of JMW Turner, Ingrid Pollard, Isaac Julien and Yinka Shonibare.
The Black Atlantic: What is the Black ...
Based on magazines dating from the 1930s to the 1970s aimed at African-American audiences, Gallagher's witty and sophisticated interventions emphasize the complex construction of identity.
Ellen Galagher, DeLuxe
Inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, Walker’s fountain explores the interconnected histories of Africa, America and Europe, referring to the transatlantic slave trade and the ambitions, fates, and tragedies of people from these three continents.
Kara Walker, Fons Americanus
Art historian Gregory Salter considers Freud’s paintings of queer and marginalized bodies in the age of Section 28, the early years of HIV/AIDS, and preoccupations about class and gender.
How did Lucian Freud present queer and ...
Ken Gonzales-Day’s Erased Lynchings repurpose nefarious historical imagery.
Ken Gonzales-Day, Erased Lynching Series
Picturing Power #6 is part of a digital photomontage series made with images sourced from a Dutch colonial archive.
Yee I-Lann, Picturing Power #6…
This monumental painting of Black people at the beach speaks to a dearth of Black figures in the art history canon
Amy Sherald, Precious Jewels by the Sea
This bandolier bag is the first of its kind from the Sac and Fox tribe in more than 20 years
Marilyn Spoon, Bandolier Bag
Smith uses historic Wyandotte forms to create this contemporary pot, bringing his Indigenous traditions into the present and future
Richard Zane Smith, Wyandotte Feast Pot
The American Dream is not what it seems in this artwork that combines painting and collage
Kerry James Marshall, Our Town
Coupland invites viewers to embrace a new set of standards regarding diverse representations of the human body in public art.
Douglas Coupland, Terry Fox Memorial
Goshorn weaves stories about forced removal from homelands and protest in this basket made of printed archival documents
Shan Goshorn, Sealed Fate: Treaty of New ...
Can we ever really see and experience a site without comparing it to the photographs of that same scene?
Binh Danh, Bridalveil Fall, Yosemite CA, May ...
On This Site reminds us of the many tragedies that have marked American history and yet remain unmarked, on-site and in the present.
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