Drawing upon his Iraqi-Jewish heritage, Michael Rakowitz critiques ongoing systems of colonization in his sculptural and participatory work.
revisiting histories
Marshall discusses his career, his strategies to circumvent institutional inequality, and his mission to diversify the cultural representations that are prioritized and historicized by the museum and art history canon.
Kerry James Marshall on his process
Diop uses his own body to restage charged moments in history in a quest for us to look at and learn from these events afresh.
Omar Victor Diop: Black subjects in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Artist Kerry James Marshall explains his series Mementos inspired by his memory of 1960s-era souvenirs.
An interview with Kerry James Marshall about ...
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
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 ...
Superman makes an appearance in what looks (at first sight) like a Japanese print.
Superman, World War II, and Japanese-American experience
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 ...
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 ...
An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs by the contemporary artist Thorton Dial
Thornton Dial, Blood and Meat: Survival For ...
Kaphar takes a violent history and renders it visible in this modified portrait of Andrew Jackson.
Titus Kaphar, The Cost of Removal
Red Star annotated photographs to restore dignity and context to government-issue photographs of Crow chiefs.
Wendy Red Star, 1880 Crow Peace Delegation
Ward refuses to let viewers take the idea of “We the People” for granted.
Nari Ward, We the People (black version)
Chilkat weaving has been practiced by Tlingit for hundreds of years; here modernity and tradition weave together.
Clarissa Rizal, Resilience Robe
Xu Bing’s text is illegible—even to those who can read Chinese.
Xu Bing, Book from the Sky
Walker’s installation builds a world that unleashes horrors even as it seduces viewers.
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