by Tracy Smith, CBS News.
“Like all great artists, she has an understanding, a grasp of what great historical artists are doing, and she’s saying, ‘Okay, I’m gonna turn that around, I’m going to make that my own,'” said Joanne Heyler, founding director of the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, home to the exhibition, “Mickalene Thomas: All About Love.” “She is completely changing who’s centered in traditional Western painting. And she’s centering Black women, queer women and queer identity, and she’s doing that with these beautiful works with glitter and rhinestone, literally bringing light and illumination to those lives.”