But as Laguna Art Museum’s new exhibit, “Black and White: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation” demonstrates, black and white can contain multiplicities.

Southern Gothic and Goth-Kid Makeup: M Lamar on Racialized Art and Black Leather. Musician, composer, and performer M Lamar proudly calls himself a Yale dropout.

“American Gothic: Gordon Parks & Ella Watson,” a collection of 60 black-and-white pictures that Parks shot in 1942, offers a snapshot of Washington, D.C., at the time, and the dynamic ...