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by Valerie Gladstone onMarch 6, 2011
The multimedia artist talks to The Root about "outsiderness," how artists are disturbers of the peace and his midcareer retrospective at the Whitney Museum.
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March 4, 2011
Since the late 1980s, the Bronx, N.Y.-born conceptual artist has explored the limits of race, gender and sexuality in his "text paintings." The Obamas have one of his paintings, Black Like Me #2, hanging in the White House, and now the Whitney Museum of Art is staging a midcareer retrospective of his work. Here's a sampling of just a few of his most provocative works.
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by Valerie Gladstone onAugust 5, 2010
Find out which artists the Obamas chose for the nation's most prestigious art collection.
