Alex Greenberger reviews Isaac Julien installations at MoMA and the Whitney Museum, on view in New York

'In all three, he takes up storied figures of Black history, resisting history lessons and clichés in the process.'

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Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 20 March–11 August 2024). Isaac Julien, Once Again… (Statues Never Die), 2022; in back: Matthew Angelo Harrison, Dark Silhouette: Borrowed Inlets – Dogon, 2018; Matthew Angelo Harrison, Dark Silhouette: Enduring Bond, 2019. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

July 12 2024