For their first solo museum show, E. Jane, artist-in-residence at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, was inspired by “Black divas” of the past and present. Think: Beyoncé, Bessie Smith, Viola Davis. Through a video essay and other imagery that channels themes from Zora Neale Hurston’s 1924 short story “Drenched in Light,” Jane illuminates powerful Black women and considers the complex relationship between iconic divas and the nature of media. It’s relatable territory for Jane, who is a performer themselves under the alter ego MHYSA, a self-described “queer Black Diva and underground popstar for the cyber resistance.”
| When | Where | How |
| Through Sept. 24 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. | mfa.org |
