“The Body Politic: Video from The Met Collection”

The individual’s relationship to power (economic, political) has always been conditioned by race and gender—which is to say the outward appearance of the body. This truism is the jumping off point for this show of videos from the Met’s collection by David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Steve McQueen and Mika Rottenberg, each of whom is represented by a single work.