3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
Photographs by Black artists; Reggie Burrows Hodges’s New York debut; and He Xiangyu’s first solo show in the United States.
Nakeya Brown’s “Almost All the Way to Love” (2017) explores the politics of Black beauty in the group show “We Wear the Mask.”Credit.Nakeya Brown and Higher Pictures Generation
Feb. 10, 2021
Through Feb. 27. Higher Pictures Generation, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn; 212-249-6100, higherpicturesgeneration.com.
Curating is an art form, the Mississippi-born, Brooklyn-based photographer D’Angelo Lovell Williams reminds us with “We Wear the Mask,” a show of photographs he organized at Higher Pictures Generation. As if to demonstrate this, the exhibition’s news release is a nearly 14-minute video that opens with Williams, costumed in a dress made with an American flag pattern, reciting “We Wear the Mask,” by the African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), and lounging and frolicking nude in a