Major acquisitions, complementary showcases plus a New Yorker cover coincide with the artist’s retrospective at the New Museum

An exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art probes how the African-American painter defied expectations

Connections have been made between the Colby College Museum of Art’s Man with a Flowered Coat and portraits of the 17th-century commander Sayyid Muzzafar in international collections

The screenprints are an abridged version of the artist’s 41-panel tempera series devoted to the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture