Barbara Chase-Riboud Malcolm X Steles

$25.00 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Bringing together more than forty works from the United States and Europe, this exhibition examines Barbara Chase-Riboud’s artistic career, focusing primarily on her important Malcolm X sculptures. Five works from that series—among them the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Malcolm X #3 of 1969—and five closely related sculptures are included. Chase-Riboud conceived the first Malcolm X in early 1969 while in Paris, where she moved in late 1960 after completing a graduate degree in architecture at Yale University…