Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood features 65 paintings and works on paper, exploring themes meaningful to the artist: neighborhood, community and religion. Over a career spanning eight decades, Crite documented the multicultural, multiracial and multigenerational communities of Boston, as well as historic social and economic changes that transformed the nation in the latter half of the 20th century. The artist created a rich visual record of Black life in 20th-century urban America, revealing a sense of community that resonates across time and place.
The exhibition brings together the artist’s early durational films and later serial photographs to examine repetition and duration as central forces in his art. Presenting nearly 70 photographs from the Zimmerli’s collection and a suite of films on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, On Repeat offers a rare look at how Warhol used time, stillness and seriality to chart the shifting terrain of identity.
The public is invited to an array of free programs, including a new series of virtual talks with four artists whose works are on view in Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always, the unprecedented survey of contemporary Native American art. Such favorites as SparkNight, Último Domingo and Art Together also continue through the spring.