Mickalene Thomas: ‘A black woman’s existence on this planet is a revolutionary act’

Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady?, a show of new and recent work by the New York-based artist that opens this month at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, is named after a two-channel video that meshes footage of African-American women performers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition also includes a new series of silk-screen portraits of the actresses Diahann Carroll and Pam Grier, among others, installed in a room styled like a 1970s domestic interior. We spoke to Th