This exhibition brings together works by artist, educator, scholar, songwriter, and social activist Romare Bearden alongside six contemporary artists—Black Quantum Futurism, Kahlil Robert Irving, Lorraine O’Grady, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, and Charisse Pearlina Weston—in a multigenerational dialogue on the political agency of art. The exhibition is presented as part of the multitier initiative Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & Economy, which includes a three-day symposium (November 30–December 2, 2023) organized by the The New School’s Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the Romare Bearden Foundation, and The Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.