Tag: Rashid Johnson

  • Black art matters: what not to miss in Miami

    Miami Art Scene May 2021 – leading America’s obsessive, overdue, and necessarily over-weighted attention to diversity, the focus on Black Art has morphed from moment to movement

  • Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America

    Full of the pain of black experience, the works here make the galleries thrum and shimmer with energy, their theme cleverly connected like spiderwebs

  • Rashid Johnson: Waves

    Is the message of Rashid Johnson’s new show helped or hindered by the repetitive motifs and elaborate detail?

  • Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019

    A new international quadrennial across Leeds and Wakefield opens with an introspective first edition, which finds the sculptural in some surprising places

  • Rashid Johnson: Fly Away

    This is Johnson at his best. Mirrors, branded wood, black soap, shea butter, cut-up photography – his trademark materials are all here in this vast gallery, as he draws visitors in to contemplate his themes of anxiety and race

  • Rashid Johnson: Magic Numbers

    Rashid Johnson talks about his show Magic Numbers at the George Economou Collection in Athens, his use of shea butter, black soap and wax and how Afrocentrism has informed his work