Julian Gaines Is Bringing Jet Magazine to the Museum

Julian V. L. Gaines’s mother collected Jet magazines. The pamphlet-size issues, which reported on national Black culture and politics, piled up in his childhood living room. Each was its own “window onto another, wider world—a world suffused with dignity, respect, [and] a healthy dose of glamour….” Gaines writes in the artist’s statement for Seen, Not Heard, a suite of paintings that recreated the magazine’s iconic covers.