British Installation artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien  (“Young Soul Rebels‘ ”Looking For Langston” and also currently Distinguished Professor of the Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz  has his frst ever retrospective ‘ I Dream a World” at an American museum. The title of the Show was taken from Langston Hughes’ famous poem,  and the exhibition features 10 major video installations from 1990 to 2022, including Looking For Langston, a lush, black-and-white meditation on the Harlem Renaissance and Black queer desire, and This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement, a searing response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Several of his works have even been restored in 4D for the exhibition.

This retrospective highlights Julien’s powerful cannon of artistic works, which explore themes of queer existence, resistance, and excellence. And it a moving reminder of the necessity of Black queer artists documenting our histories and futures