ALLENSWORTH
ALLENSWORTH
(c) courtesy of the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
VERDICT: James Benning’s latest, bowing in the Berlin Forum, offers a powerful comment on racial politics in the U.S. in a static-shot portrait of the first settlement to be founded and governed by African-Americans.
The key lies in the capital letters. For someone renowned for his understated, minimalist approach t