More than halfway through “Blackness in Abstraction,” an austere photograph by Carrie Mae Weems posed a Mies van der Rohe leather daybed—conjuring a truant psychoanalytic patient, perhaps—against a wa…
Active crosscurrents of racial politics and abstraction wash over the 20 works shown in Ellen Gallagher’s exhibition, nowhere more turbulently than in An Experiment of Unusual Opportunity (2008)…