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A video still of seven people in a v-formation outdoors

Swinguerra

Bárbara Wagner ,Benjamin de Burca

A sculpture of a woman stands with outstretched arms. She is nude from head to waist. The surface of the sculpture is rendered in varied dark tones, with mostly dark greens and browns, and is chipped and freckled in many places. She has no face. Her head is a round open bowl without eyes, nose, mouth, or ears. She wears a large, voluminous skirt. The skirt is made of dried raffia, which is a type of palm tree. She stands at life-size.

Cupboard IX

A painting of a bright red lattice screen separating a dark red room from a blue room featuring a pink family portrait

Facets: Screen Wall

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

A hanging sculpture made of two fishing nets stretched around two metal rings with colorful, embroidered illustrations

Man Without a Country (aka anthropophagist wading in the Artibonite River)

A hanging sculpture made of two fishing nets stretched around two metal rings with colorful, embroidered illustrations

Currents, Fire and Blood

Carolina Caycedo

An installation shows a projection of a map with text that reads "bring enemy revolverr," "I assure you, we are not afraid. We are not sentimental," "annihilate," and "brutes" in all caps and in various parts of the map.

KABOOM!

William Kentridge

A square painting of a wooden board and nail in the brown earth surrounded by rocks and debris, presented in a pink speckled frame

Ground View: Plank

Josephine Halvorson

A painting of a medium-dark-skinned child dressed in yellow surrounded by three yellow cars.

“The Beautyful Ones” Series #7

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

A sculpture consisting of a colorful ceramic and papier mache structure with multiple arms holding ceramic vessels and displayed on a table with an embroidered white tablecloth.

Convivium

Jessica Jackson Hutchins

A mixed media collage depicts a Black boy in a striped shirt, dark pants, and sneakers standing to the left of a vertical white canvas. His hands hang in front of him with outstretched fingers and a light-skinned hand rests on his chest.

Ulysses

Deborah Roberts

An installation of two objects hung side by side a framed reproduction of Sandro Botticelli's "Virgin and Child with an Angel" oil painting and a circular glass plate speckled in gold stars that casts a halo shadow on the wall.

Halo after Botticelli

Josiah McElheny

A bronze sculpture of a knitted blanket suspended between two rods on a narrow metal plinth.

Untitled

Michelle Grabner

LARNER_ii (calefaction subduction)

ii (calefaction subduction)

A drawing on paper depicts a Black man relaxing in a tiled bathtub with art objects including two masks and a rendering of two Black men in colorful suits hanging on adjacent walls behind the tub.

Heir Apparent

Toyin Ojih Odutola

A color photograph of a Black woman in a full-length purple patterned dress, standing in front of floral wallpaper and holding a West African mask over her face and a large vintage black-and-white photograph.

Sundown (Number Twelve)

Xaviera Simmons

A color photograph shows a large photograph, cut vertically in two, apparently floating in a white-walled studio. The cut image depicts the shoulders and hands of a dark-skinned man, holding a camera. In the space between the two pieces a camera tripod can be seen.

Mirror Study (0X5A7431)

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

A large mixed- media painting depicts the abstracted figure of a man in a tank top and sneakers standing on a sidewalk holding a beer can and the leg of another figure in red gingham pants that appears to have just walked out of the frame.

Lite

Tschabalala Self

A painting of a dense black-and-white grid.

Route One: Box Two: V

McArthur Binion

A black-and-white photograph of a Black woman in a beauty pageant gown, crown, and gloves whipping a white cat o’ nine tails in a dark gallery.

Untitled (Mlle Bourgeoise Noire)

Lorraine O’Grady

An abstract, mixed media work comprised of geometric sections with various colorful patterns attached together to make an irregular shape.

Untitled

Howardena Pindell, Still from Free, White and 21, 1980. Color video (12:15 minutes)

Free, White and 21

Howardena Pindell

A collage of ink, acrylic, and mixed media on paper shows an organic mass or lump of various earth tones and textures with protruding antennae or hair-like growths.

Untitled (Tumor)

A sculpture comprised of a black wooden chair with elongated, spider-like legs that towers in height and is decorated with black feathers, black and silver tinsel, and hair.

Blackthrone VIII

A black-and-white square photograph shows a tight close up of a light-skinned man’s flat, bare stomach with a belly button in the center.

Belly Button

Robert Mapplethorpe

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