Exhibits range from installations that use actual shadows for visual effect to video art and elaborate conceptual pieces concerned with issues of surveillance, memory, perception and truth.
Beginning with his earliest songs—such as "Gypsy Woman" (1961), "It's All Right" (1963), "Keep On Pushing" (1964), and "People Get Ready" (1965)—when he was lead vocalist of the Impressions, Mayfield wrote highly inspirational, humanistic pieces concerned with African American uplift.
One of his most memorable Journal pieces concerned a Chicago Sun-Times contest to select a successor to advice columnist Ann Landers.
He choreographed his first solo, "Face," a piece concerning newspapers and how they affected him, to a sound score he composed called "Suite for Bedsprings, Venetian Blinds, Coke Cans and Toilets".
Last summer, Walmart also found itself the subject of an unflattering New York Times piece concerning its working conditions, to which it famously responded in a flippant "fact check" rebuttal still online today.
In 1989, Adam Gopnik wrote a Talk piece concerning a visit by Isabella Rossellini (one of the twin daughters born to Rossellini and Bergman in 1952) to Wesleyan University, where her mother's archives were housed.
This morning on NPR I listened to a piece concerning the anniversary of the "massacre" at Columbine.
