People often describe Isaac Julien’s video installations and films as “poetic,” but there were moments in “Isaac Julien: I Dream a World,” the major retrospective at the de Young, when I felt as if I ...

Isaac Julien, "North Star" from the installation Lessons of the Hour (2019), framed photograph mounted on aluminum (© Isaac Julien; image courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro) HARTFORD, Conn. — When ...

The video artist famous for his films charged with Black queer desire unleashes a kitsch, bombastic and rather glorious meditation on human connection If you like grand designs, you should see the ...

The auteur's new film "All That Changes You. Metamorphosis" is a time-warping response to ecological destruction that opens at Palazzo Te on October 3. Sheila Atim on the set of Issac Julien, All That ...

ArtReview, one of the world’s leading contemporary art magazines, has named University of California, Santa Cruz Arts and Humanities Professor Sir Isaac Julien as the fifth most influential artist in ...

For older LGBTQ folk, the name Isaac Julien will stir up memories of his 1989 film, “Looking for Langston,” a lyrical exploration of the private world of novelist, poet, and social activist Langston ...

“I Dream a World,” the acclaimed new exhibition at the de Young Museum on view through July 13, marks the first major retrospective of Isaac Julien—an internationally celebrated artist and ...

“I want to call attention to how you look,” the artist known for his multi-channel film installations says of I Dream a World, his first US museum survey to date. Isaac Julien, "Black Madonna / New ...

British artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien has spent over two decades pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling, establishing himself as a pioneering voice in Black queer art — his art house ...

Perhaps you don't associate Blaxploitation filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles with Renaissance painting? I didn't, at least not before last week, but now I'll never be able to unhitch Van Peebles from the ...