Kerry James Marshall: Royal Academy of Arts

Mark Godfrey was a curator at Tate Modern, London, from 2007 to 2021. Benjamin Buchloh was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 2005 to 2021. Aria Dean is an American artist, critic and curator. Until 2021, she served as Curator and Editor of Rhizome. Darby English is Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Madeleine Grynsztejn is Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Fabrice Hergott is Director of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Cathérine Hug is Curator of Twentieth-century Art at Kunsthaus Zürich. Nikita Sena Quarshie is a London-based researcher, writer and curator. Rebecca Zorach is Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Foreword 6 Lead Supporter’s Preface 8 RADICAL PRAGMATISM 10 Kerry James Marshall in conversation with Benjamin H. D. Buchloh KERRY JAMES MARSJHALL: 19 THE HISTORIES Mark Godfrey MARSHALL AND THE WOODCUT 187 Cathérine Hug DEEP PLACES 193 Rebecca Zorach ALL BLACKS ARE GREY 203 Aria Dean AFTER HISTORY 210 Madeleine Grynsztejn HISTORIES, MYSTERIES AND RYTHMS 221 Nikita Sena Quarshie SURPRISING REPRESENTATIVES 230 Darby English Notes 238 Further Reading 247 Acknowledgements 248 Curator’s Acknowledgements 248 Lenders to the Exhibition 250 Photographic Acknowledgements 250 Index 251