To enter Kehinde Wiley's show An Archaeology of Silence is to step into darkness, where only the art itself seems to emit light... culminates with a monumental sculpture of a fallen man on horseback, draped over the horse as if he had just been shot, his Nikes dangling below the saddle.
While his particular blend of the contemporary and historical is all his own, Wiley is just one of several artists working these days to stage dramatically dark exhibitions... Betye Saar has powerfully dimmed the lights for a new installation at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, Drifting Toward Twilight... Dawoud Bey created a moody, nearly funereal environment for his black-and-white landscape photographs.
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