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The characters in McMillian's films wore costumes and delivered song lyrics, political sermons, and children’s stories. He set the films in a lush but hostile
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Underground Museum in Los Angeles, Brown: videos from The Black Show, featured several video works originally presented in his 2016 solo exhibition The Black Show at the
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stores and antique shops, sometimes with the price tags still attached. The pieces explored how class and ideals have informed
American landscape painting, and how handmade objects move through the economy.
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September 2020 in the solo exhibition Rodney McMillian: Historically Hostile at the
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