The artist and philosopher Adrian Piper's direct and subtly intellectual approach to unpacking the tangled issues of
race, gender, identity, and belonging has inspired a generation of socially - conscious artists across all media, although her impact is just now being fully recognized: she was the recipient of the Golden Lion for best artist at this year's Venice Biennale, and MoMA has recently announced plans for, in the words of Robin Pogrebin in the New York Times, «the most
comprehensive exhibition to date on the conceptual artist,»
set to open in 2018.