CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/23/2016

Kerry James Marshall is one of T Magazine's 'Greats'

This week, The New York Times' T Magazine celebrates seven people who are redefining our culture with seven unique covers. These include first lady Michelle Obama, pop performer Lady Gaga, designer Junya Watanabe, chef Massimo Bottura, writer Zadie Smith, photographer William Eggleston and painter Kerry James Marshall, whose career retrospective opens this week at The Met Breuer. The idea of the paintings, Wyatt Mason quotes Marshall, "is that blackness is non-negotiable in those pictures. It’s also unequivocal — they are black — that’s the thing that I mean for people to identify immediately. They are black to demonstrate that blackness can have complexity. Depth. Richness."