CAM senior curator Dana Friis-Hansen made his mark with shows organized around such notions as “cross-cultural identity” and “the other.” His latest effort, “Other Narratives,” brings together a selection of '80s and '90s American art that “addresses issues of self, society, history, and cultural marginalization.” Think you've heard all that before? Well, the works by the twenty artists slated for inclusion—Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Pepon Osorio, Elaine Reichek, Kara Walker, and Carrie Mae Weems among them—should rise above the banality and buzzwords. The catalogue features contributions by Friis-Hansen, Greg Tate, and Robert Atkins.

— Matthew DeBord