At the Mississippi Museum of Art, Mark Bradford, Theaster Gates Jr., Carrie Mae Weems and others explore the personal legacy of the era-shaping movement from the rural South.
Tag: Sculpture
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Does Public Art Have an Afterlife?
Public artworks have the power to uplift a city. Sometimes they end up in a museum, but other times in a dumpster.
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A Self-Taught Artist Takes His Roadside Acropolis North
Outside the art establishment for decades, Charles Smith has sculpted his Black heroes in Aurora, Ill., and now in Hammond, La. At 81, he’s getting his first show in New York.