The artist’s sprawling survey at the Guggenheim reveals an intellect unfolding and a life under way.

How will we recognize it? Detail view of Rashid Johnson’s “Sanguine” (2025), featuring books by Harold Cruse and Debra J. Dickerson Rashid Johnson, “Fire Pit ‘High Life'” (2022 ...

In Johnson’s show, it’s impossible to be silent. Everyone here has to engage with the work in some way. Downtown Brooklyn, in the same house that my mom, the playwright Lynn Nottage ...

Targets recur through Rashid Johnson's rotunda-filling Guggenheim ... his pieces resembling shelving units of the early 2010s, to which Johnson added books, record sleeves, mirrors, and rough ...

NEW YORK — Why has no one previously suspended palms and other indoor plants in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum? Frank Lloyd Wright designed the building to include flora year-round. But it took ...

Artist Rashid Johnson has recently let the light in ... “I fucking obviously never meant to hurt anyone’s feelings.” In her new book, When We’re in Charge, Amanda Litman aims to inspire ...

In the book, he is a monster who murders two young ... The five-minute work shows Julius, Jimmy Johnson, and Rashid walking on a beach, rubbing sunscreen on one another’s backs, playing chess ...

“A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” Rashid Johnson’s knotty retrospective that just opened at the Guggenheim, draws its title from a work by Amiri Baraka. Like that activist writer, the Chicago-born ...

In April 1965, Harper’s Bazaar unveiled an edition of the magazine guest-edited by photographer Richard Avedon and dedicated to “the off-beat side of Now.” Borne of a moment of upheaval not ...

But it took Rashid Johnson, on the occasion of his mid-career ... With their performative placement of books and old vinyl records, these sculptures can resemble the carefully curated bookshelves ...