Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm

An artists book by Grace Wales Bonner, featuring works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

On the occasion of the exhibition Artists Choice: Grace Wales Bonner, MoMA will publish an artists book titled Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the RhythmVisions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection, assembled by Wales Bonner as an archive of soulful expression. Through an extraordinary selection of nearly eighty works from the Museums collection and archives, this unique volume will draw multisensory connections between pictures and poems, music and performance, hearing and touch, gestures and vibrations and bodies in motion. Photographs, scores, and performance documentation will be juxtaposed with signal texts by Black authors spanning the past century, including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The result is a deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression.