This tour explores Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers and Collection in Focus: The Reach of Faith Ringgold, both on display at the Guggenheim Museum.
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers (April 18, 2025 through January 18, 2026) highlights the paintings, photographs, large-scale sculptures, and videos from this Chicago-born contemporary artist and scholar of art history. Working across disciplines including philosophy, literature, and music, Johnson's art explores his personal past and identity within the larger context of African American intellectual and creative history. This major solo exhibition includes almost 90 works, from black-soap paintings and spray-painted text to Sanguine, a monumental site-specific installation on the building’s top ramp with an embedded piano for musical performances.
Collection in Focus: The Reach of Faith Ringgold (May 9, 2025 through September 14, 2025) presents Woman on a Bridge #1 of 5: Tar Beach, one of quilter Faith Ringgold's most important works. The first in a series of five, tells the story of a young girl who dreams of flying from her Harlem rooftop to celebrate her own freedom and self-possession. This exhibition dives into Ringgold’s artistic influences such as European modernists Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso and the lasting impact she has had on later generations of contemporary American artists such as Tschabalala Self and Sanford Biggers.
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