Guggenheim Museum to Maintain Mid-Profession Survey for Rashid Johnson

The Guggenheim Museum in New York will maintain a mid-career survey subsequent 12 months for Rashid Johnson, an artist who sat on the establishment’s board for seven years. He stepped down from the place final 12 months to keep away from a battle of curiosity, based on the New York Instances.

The exhibition, titled “Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” will run from April 18, 2025, to January 18, 2026, and can function practically 90 works. Amongst these slated to be proven are items from his 2008 photograph sequence “New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Membership” and ones from his black cleaning soap portray sequence “Cosmic Slop.” There will even be works from his “Anxious Males” and “Damaged Males” sequence on view.

Johnson’s first gained reward greater than 20 years in the past, when his work was featured in Thelma Golden’s 2001 “Freestyle” exhibition on the Studio Museum in Harlem. The present targeted on a then-rising group of Black artists.

In an interview with the New York Instances Naomi Beckwith, the Guggenheim’s deputy director and the exhibition’s co-organizer, lauded Johnson’s skill to attach his private historical past with broader social points. The present takes its title from a poem by Amiri Baraka, a significant determine within the Black Arts motion between the Sixties and ’70s.

The present will journey to the Fashionable Artwork Museum of Fort Value in Texas after the Guggenheim at a date that hasn’t but been disclosed.

Sanguine (2024), a movie exploring intergenerational dynamics in his circle of relatives, will premiere in Paris at Hauser & Wirth in October earlier than being screened on the Guggenheim. In a picture circulated of the movie forward of the Paris present, three figures pose for a portrait in a lounge, every holding tribal masks to hide their faces.

Beckwith stated she had been in talks with Johnson about doing a mission since organizing his first touring museum present in 2012 on the Museum of Modern Artwork Chicago, the place she served as a curator.