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How Richard Wright Shaped John Wilson’s Protest Art
With 1940’s explosive Native Son, the novelist Richard Wright lit a fire in American literature, the embers of which still glow today. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, he inspired many, including a young John Wilson, born in 1922 to Guyanese immigrants in the working-class neighborhood of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Wright, who read more
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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
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