This swaying juke joint belies its purpose as the central meeting place enlivened by music and dance in many African American communities, but its jubilance is tempered by the painting's ominous atmosphere
American Modernism
A horrifying painting of racial violence that can help us see where we are and where we need to be in terms of tolerance and empathy
Vertis Hayes, The Lynchers
Colescott asks—what are the implicit messages about Black womanhood embedded in American visual culture?
Robert Colescott, I Gets a Thrill Too ...
Me and My Neon Box embodies Kay WalkingStick’s process of working through questions about painting, sexuality, gender, and race.
Kay WalkingStick, Me and My Neon Box
The performance of indigenous identity through the lens of early 20th-century Modernism.
Robert Henri, Tom Po Qui (Water of ...
A magical landscape
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