Photography
fromThe New Yorker
4 days agoTyler Mitchell's Art-Historical Mood Board
Tyler Mitchell, a thirty-year-old photographer, gained fame for reference-rich images of Black beauty, and his strongest work reveals a tender eye for imperfection.
Across eight galleries featuring ten artists, Echoes in the Present highlights how the cultural influences between Africa and Brazil have flowed both ways, a realisation Das first made growing up in Nigeria in the 1990s. "There were references to Brazilian culture through food, people's last names," she says. "I then later came into an understanding of enslaved people from Yorubaland who were forcibly removed and taken to Brazil, who then returned to Nigeria as freed slaves."
The Haines curation focuses on a series of large-scale paintings he began in 2023-marvelous small, never- and rarely-seen works from the 1990s and 2000s. Henderson's experimental 16mm films made in the 1970s and 80s (some restored by the Academy Film Archive) offer valuable insights into his character and wit, while delivering critical moments in Bay Area history and politically powerful content.