Whitney Museum Of American Art
James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly is one of the most important and beloved artworks on the Smithsonian American Art Museum , and it is full of mysteries. The Throne, a monumental paintings with more than 180 parts wrapped in gold and silver foil, got here totally to mild only after the artist’s dying. While Hampton’s views on his life’s work went undocumented, the splendor and magnitude of his project is clear to all who experience this powerful yet enigmatic paintings. When contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas was in art college, she couldn’t …
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