The 10 Most Anticipated Art Shows This Season
Author: Holland Cotter - Co-Chief Art Critic
I plan to head South for “Speaking Truth to Power: The Life of Bayard Rustin” at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, in Memphis (March 27, 2025), a documentary tribute to an eloquent choreographer of the early civil rights movement. Letters, telegrams, calendars, phone books, letters and drawings, as well as art that Rustin collected — all displayed with photographs by David Katzenstein — will make up a visual biography of a show, which will have particular resonance in this history-haunted museum. (The complete archive of Rustin material will enter the museum’s permanent display in 2026.)