It’s the last days to get a chance to see this sur­vey of African Amer­i­can Artists.

from the web­site:
30 Amer­i­cans is a wide-ranging sur­vey of work by many of the most impor­tant African Amer­i­can artists of the last three decades. Selected from the Rubell Fam­ily Col­lec­tion, the exhi­bi­tion brings together sem­i­nal fig­ures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Ham­mons with younger and emerg­ing artists such as Kehinde Wiley and Shinique Smith.

30 Amer­i­cans focuses on issues of racial, sex­ual, and his­tor­i­cal iden­tity in con­tem­po­rary cul­ture. It explores how each artist reck­ons with the notion of black iden­tity in Amer­ica, nav­i­gat­ing such con­cerns as the strug­gle for civil rights, pop­u­lar cul­ture, and media imagery. At the same time, it high­lights artis­tic legacy and influ­ence, trac­ing sub­ject mat­ter and for­mal strate­gies across generations.

Cor­co­ran Gallery of Art and Col­lege of Art + Design
500 Sev­en­teenth Street NW Wash­ing­ton, DC 20006
Gallery: (202) 639‑1700

post image: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bird On Money, 1981. Acrylic and oil on can­vas, 66 x 90 inches. Cour­tesy of Rubell Fam­ily Col­lec­tion, Miami.