A Major Survey of Black Collage Art Proves That Print Isn’t Dead

August 16, 2024 2:17 PM

Review of "Multiplicity: Blackness in American Collage" Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.by Alex Greenberger at ARTNews: "Artists like Williams have not ignored violence both past and present. They have instead highlighted how print media is imbricated in the history of anti-Black racism, then found ways of exposing that exploitation without reiterating it."
posted by bq (4 comments total)

TIL: "imbricate - overlap or cause to overlap"

also, from the Google search result of that definition:
"a distinguishing feature of the echinoids is that the ossicles imbricate" ... wat?!
posted by slater at 2:50 PM on August 16 [5 favorites]

Really enjoyed looking through and reading about the works from Jamal Cyrus and Lorna Simpson - sad I’m no longer in DC, or I’d be at the Phillips in person, peering at these in detail. Thanks, bq.
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 6:07 PM on August 16 [1 favorite]

bq, thank you. the exhibition looks good [phillips]. i also enjoy any article that includes
winsome geekiness

slater, "a distinguishing feature of the echinoids is that the ossicles imbricate" appears to come from animaldiversity.org:

Like all echinoderms, echinoids are pentaradially symmetrical, have a water-vascular system, and have an internal skeleton made of calcitic ossicles (plates). A distinguishing feature of the echinoids is that the ossicles imbricate (overlap) and are fused...

i.e. sea urchins have cool skeletons

*returns to bricolage* [artofbricolage]
posted by HearHere at 3:13 AM on August 17 [3 favorites]

Came for Lorna Simpson, was not disappointed. I love her drawings on various types of graph paper, with themes of incarceration.
posted by BrashTech at 10:04 AM on August 17 [1 favorite]