Contemporary artists from Amy Sherald to Toyin Ojih Odutola showcase the complexity, richness, and joy of Black life at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Images courtesy of the artists and Niru Ratnam, London, Hollybush Gardens, London, Gagosian, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Casey Kaplan, New York, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and Hauser & Wirth
“It’s only in the 20th century that you see something of a shift,” says Eshun, whose major group exhibition, “The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure,” is currently on view, through February 9, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The subject of art history—and its shortcomings when it comes to the Black figure—surfaces repeatedly throughout the show. In Eshun’s second section, “Past and Presence,” Barbara Walker’s striking works in graphite pencil starkly highlight how Black servitude is presented in canonical works.
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