revisiting histories

Kara Walker, Fons Americanus

by Tate

Ken Gonzales-Day, Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abraham S. Smith, Marion, IN. 1930, Erased Lynchings Set III, 2006-2019. Archival inkjet print on rag paper mounted on cardstock. 4.5 x 6 in. — Ken Gonzales-Day’s *Erased Lynchings* repurpose nefarious historical imagery.

Ken Gonzales-Day, Erased Lynching Series

by Dr. Mary Trent

Yee I-Lann, Picturing Power #6…

by Soyoon Ryu

Beyte Saar Aunt Jemima grid — Beyte Saar boldly attempts to rescue the Mammy character from her demeaning, servile role in Jim Crow fantasy in this powerful assemblage

Betye Saar, Liberation of Aunt Jemima

by Sunanda K. Sanyal

Michael Rakowitz: Haunting the West

by Art21

Kerry James Marshall on his process

by The Museum of Contemporary Art

Omar Victor Diop: Black subjects in the ...

by HENI Talks

Pang grid — A day of two Suns (2019) is an ensemble of plywood mountain sculptures and found objects staged around a large paper screen, upon which videos are projected on either side

Lam Tung Pang on “A day of ...

by Asian Art Museum

Watch a former sugar factory turn into a monumental installation, including a colossal sugar-coated sphinx and a series of life-sized, sugar and resin boy figurines

Kara Walker, A Subtlety, or the Marvelous ...

by Art21

Artist Fred Wilson talks about the conventions of the museum and how he used them in his art to disrupt the inherent biases and traditional understandings that museums and its patrons have had

An interview with Fred Wilson about the ...
by SFMOMA

Artist Kerry James Marshall explains his series Mementos inspired by his memory of 1960s-era souvenirs.

An interview with Kerry James Marshall about ...
by SFMOMA

Artist Kara Walker talks about the often-violent subject matter of her work and the popular literature that inspired it

An interview with Kara Walker
by SFMOMA

In Tenzing Rigdol’s Pin drop silence: Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara, we encounter a traditional Buddhist deity in an artwork that is anything but conventional .

Tenzing Rigdol, Pin drop silence: Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara ...
by Dr. Sarah Magnatta

Superman makes an appearance in what looks (at first sight) like a Japanese print.

Superman, World War II, and Japanese-American experience
by Dr. Sarah Newman, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Dr. Beth Harris

How can we begin to correct the lies of history? Artist Kenseth Armstead suggests a poetic solution.

History and deception: Kenseth Armstead’s Surrender Yorktown ...
by Kenseth Armstead and Dr. Steven Zucker

Jason and the Golden Fleece and the American anti-Slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin combine to upend our own contemporary myths

Turning Uncle Tom’s Cabin upside down, Alison ...
by Dr. Halona Norton-Westbrook, Toledo Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris

An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs by the contemporary artist Thorton Dial

Thornton Dial, Blood and Meat: Survival For ...
by Timothy Anglin Burgard, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Beth Harris

Kaphar takes a violent history and renders it visible in this modified portrait of Andrew Jackson.

Titus Kaphar, The Cost of Removal
by Lauren Haynes, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Beth Harris

Red Star annotated photographs to restore dignity and context to government-issue photographs of Crow chiefs.

Wendy Red Star, 1880 Crow Peace Delegation
by Wendy Red Star at Portland Art Museum and Dr. Steven Zucker

Ward refuses to let viewers take the idea of “We the People” for granted.

Nari Ward, We the People (black version)
by Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

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