Isaac Julien’s gorgeous shots reclaim authorship of history

Filmmaker’s first major Bay Area exhibition beholds Harlem Renaissance queer culture, James Baldwin, blaxploitation.


two black men dancing in smokey room

I Dream a World, a current exhibition at the de Young Museum of Art, is the largest retrospective of Sir Isaac Julien’s work in the United States. His video installations reshape American history centering the Black experience.

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Last modified: May 12, 2025