About this episode

This episode features artists Denzil Forrester and William Wylie discussing their works and exhibitions.

Episode No. 761 features artists Denzil Forrester and William Wylie. Forrester is featured in "Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago through September 20. The exhibition explores and expands the visual, political, and spiritual histories of dancehall and reggaetón through contemporary art produced in the Caribbean, New York, London, and beyond. It was curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates with Cecilia González Godino, Iris Colburn, Nolan Jimbo, and nibia pastrana santiago. A catalogue will be published by the museum and DelMonico Books in July. It is available from Bookshop and Amazon for $60-65. The Grenada-born Forrester is best known for paintings that mine London's dub reggae culture and music clubs of the 1980s for subject and verve. The drawings he made in urban dance halls then continue to inform his work. His paintings are full of references to diaspora, the policing of Black people and culture in the UK, and dub reggae music itself. White Columns, New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City have presented solo exhibitions of his work in the US; in the UK…

People in this episode

Host: Tyler Green

Guests: Denzil Forrester, William Wylie

Topics covered

• contemporary art
• dancehall
• reggaetón
• Black culture
• photography
• exhibitions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, DelMonico Books, White Columns, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Nottingham Contemporary, Jackson Foundation Gallery, Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Books & works: Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón, The Eighty-Eight: Photographs from a Japanese Pilgrimage

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