Walking Tour: Lorna Simpson: Source Notes at the Met

Lorna Simpson: Source Notes (running May 19, 2025 through November 2, 2025) is the first exhibition to consider the entirety of this New York-based artist. She came to prominence in the 1980s with a pioneering approach to conceptual photography and later expanded to painting, collage, sculpture, and screen printing, exploring issues of gender, race, identity, representation, and history. She has often drawn inspiration (source notes) from images found in Ebony and Jet magazines as well as the archives of the Associated Press and the Library of Congress.