Rashid Johnson and the Age of Broken Men

A few months ago, my niece drew a human face for the first time. She’s two years old and can barely hold a marker, but I knew immediately what she’d made. Two dots and a dash, and my brain, prepped by eons of evolution, did the rest. Something similar happened to me at “The Hikers,” Rashid Johnson’s recent exhibition at Hauser & Wirth. Faces jumped out of his collages and tile mosaics, whether I was looking for them or not. The more crudely sketched they were, t