SGFARA

Sargent Claude Johnson, a Major Black Modernist, Emerges Anew in His First Survey in Decades

Despite receiving acclaim from the finest Black thinkers of his day, he today goes under-recognized outside the Bay Area.

Highlights include exhibitions at 18th Street Art Center, Oxy Arts, and Karma.

Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, Jeffrey Deitch, and others will have major exhibitions on view.

Here’s what we’re reading this morning.

The exhibition is on view until March 24 at the American Folk Art Museum in New York.

Humidity levels and dripping water had been concerning to institutional leadership.

The work left Marden’s studio in 2007, and has not been seen publicly since then.

She called it a “masterpiece of performance art.”

The organization will use the grant to grow its photography-focused programming.

Caravaggio helped craft the dramatic Baroque style of the Counter-Reformation, but interest in him also stems from his reputation as a troublemaker.