Tag: Humane

  • John Wilson’s Relentlessly Humane Vision of Black Life

    I was on my way to one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s blockbuster exhibitions when something unexpected stopped me: John Wilson’s “Self-Portrait” (2002). This haunting, abraded pastel and paint work is part of the revelatory exhibition Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson. A longtime resident of Boston, a city that never developed an read more

    John Wilson’s Relentlessly Humane Vision of Black Life