Mickalene Thomas: All About Love
an exhibition at the Broad, Los Angeles, May 25–September 29, 2024; the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, October 20, 2024–January 12, 2025; Hayward Gallery, London, February 11–May 5, 2025; and Les Abattoirs, Musee–Frac Occitanie Toulouse, June 13–November 9, 2025. Catalog of the exhibition edited by the Hayward Gallery.
DAP/Hayward Publishing, 237 pp., $60.00
When I entered the first-floor galleries of the Broad in Los Angeles in June, I found that I’d been transported to a residential street in Camden, New Jersey, where the open door of a yellow clapboard townhouse beckoned. Crossing the threshold, I arrived in a living room—a pair of living rooms, actually, presented side by side. The first was all 1970s: moody lighting illuminated a cozy wood-paneled room lush with house plants and furnishings…