Jemison's works are often fragments that point to a larger body of research, much of it focused on the epistemological implications of such encounters.
This retrospective of African-American painter Archibald J. Motley Jr. was the first in over 20 years. Motley was one of the greatest painters associated with the Harlem Renaissance, the broad cultura…
One of the most thrilling exhibitions to arrive in New York last year was “Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist” at the Whitney, a traveling retrospective of the under-sung African…