HAIL WE NOW SING JOY
June 23-Sept. 17 Milwaukee Art Museum
As restless as it is provocative, the work of Rashid Johnson doesn’t fit into easy categories. In this expansive exhibit, organized by Kansas City’s Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the work crosses borders between installation, photography, video, painting and sculpture. Composed of tile, mirrors and oak flooring, pieces in the series “Falling Men” suggest superheroes in flight or crime-scene chalk outlines. “Antoine’s Organ,” Johnson’s most dramatic work to date, is a massive three-dimensional structure containing plants, sculptures and video monitors. Johnson has a lot to say about American identity and the black experience.