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Together, these 97 pieces suggest Black artists have made the most important art of our time.
Unlike with similar exhibitions, you will not spend your time laboring over gassy wall texts.
Sometimes this show tears your heart out; other times, it is like a resurrection.
The piece is a detonator.
Edwardss work shatters the neutrality of high modernism and maps whole new inner worlds and histories.
Photography was perennially one of Enwezors strongest suits.
Dawoud Beys series The Birmingham Project gets at what happens when white America intercedes more overtly.
Beys chasm of sorrow becomes almost bottomless.
It also reminds us that there is no single message to the work here.
Although a handful of newer artists are included in Grief and Grievance, the show does not feel forward-looking.
