Rashid Johnson’s Revelatory Guggenheim Survey Lets His Art Remain Complex and Elusive

Targets recur through Rashid Johnson’s rotunda-filling Guggenheim Museum retrospective, an insightful show that certainly hits the mark. The first can be seen outside the museum: a large steel sculpture called Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos (2008), its title a reference to a Public Enemy song of the same name. Inside, there are paintings in which crosshairs are singed into oak floorboards, and there’s a film in which a target appears on a beach, crudely drawn into the sand as dance