February 2018

Photograph by Eric Helgas for The New Yorker An under-sung artist upends received ideas about race and history. by Vinson Cunningham | The New Yorker Biggers’s art, layered with references to race and history, is sincere and ironic at once. Audio: Listen to this story. Three years ago, on a Saturday in spring, I wandered into a humid gallery just south of Canal Street. On display was a group exhibition called “Black Eye,” which included works by an impressive roster of established and emerging artists—Kehinde Wiley,...