In many ways, the survey has been a long time coming. The museum has collected Johnson’s work, he is old friends with chief ...

Named after a poem by Amiri Baraka, the show is a visual feast due to Johnson’s multidisciplinary practice. Everything is ...

chronicles the relationship between the color blue and Black people, whom Amiri Baraka famously dubbed “blues people.” Perry tracks this relationship from the early modern cultivation of ...

of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he was the only Black poet in attendance ... and ...

Guggenheim Museum’s iconic rotunda, Rashid Johnson feels as if he’s at a family reunion. “I always think of art as objects ...

The artist’s first major museum survey fills Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiral with a rich mix of media, a view of the polymathic ...

The syncopated story of funk music, from its roots to the explosion of '70s urban funk and beyond. WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African ...

Guggenheim Foundation, New York The exhibition begins outside the doors of the museum with a sculpture titled “Black ... Poem for Deep Thinkers,” takes its title from a poem by Amiri Baraka ...

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