Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History surveys the last ten years of the artist’s powerful charcoal drawings
to wade into what we don’t quite know
Made to accompany a 1979 group exhibition on view at Pace in New York and The Akron Art Institute
“Uniting the stone age with the avant-garde
photographs
Blackness in Abstraction Books Robert Longo: The Acceleration ofProduced for Paces 2016 group exhibition Blackness in Abstraction, this publication explores Blackness as a powerful, evocative, and animating force in abstract art from the 1940s to the present day. With an essay by curator Adrienne Edwards, the book reproduces in full color the work of 29 essential intergenerational artists including Robert Irwin, Pope L., Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Lorraine OGrady, Adam Pendleton, Carrie Mae Weems, Jack Whitten, and