Three decades ago, a crew of hair stylists, led by David Humphries, began flaunting their most fantastic designs at night clubs around Detroit. “Hair Wars”—equal parts performance art and promotion—is still going strong; it arrives at moma PS1 on March 18. Among the participants is Joanne Petit-Frère (modelling her own creation, above). Her portrait was taken by Kwame Brathwaite, whose Afrocentric vision helped to pioneer the “Black Is Beautiful” movement, in the nineteen-sixties.
This article appears in the print edition of the March 19, 2018, issue, with the headline “This Week.”
March 19, 2018
