Chris Ofili: The Othello Prints

Chris Ofili, Othello, 2018 (detail)

Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York

January 2022

January 20–March 12, 2022  Chris Ofili's twelve Othello prints are presented in conjunction with Such Sweet Thunder—Columbia’s year-long festival of concerts, dramatic presentations, and lectures centering on Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s Shakespeare-inspired jazz suite. In these etchings, Ofili represents one of Shakespeare’s most complexly moving figures while challenging viewers to see in Othello: The Moor of Venice, aspects of the profound tragedies—racial and otherwise—that plague the world today.  Learn more at Wallach Art Gallery.