MoAD Reopens With Its Imagination ‘Unbound’

We walk among giants. Paragons whose vision rises above the Earth, and whose example lifts us with them, toward a freer tomorrow.

Unbound: Art, Blackness and the Universe, a new exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), is physically confined by four walls. But its central proposal goes like this: What if humankind could release itself from terrestrial limitations — and in the process, transcend religion, technology and myth as well?

It may seem like a heady concept. But the first exhibition at the newly reopened MoAD, which spent six months closed for lighting and HVAC upgrades, is both visually and cerebrally stunning, and delivers on its promise more often than not. Expanding beyond familiar staples from the past decade of art spaces’ fixation on Afrofuturism, it challe