Daryl Meador (@darylceleste) reviews John Akomfrah (@akomfrahjohn)’s six-screen audio-visual installation “The Hour Of The Dog”, on view at The Menil Collection (@menilcollection), Houston.

“’The Hour Of The Dog’ unfolds as “Five Parables on Fugitivity and Trespass,” each interweaving present-day footage with archival materials. Historical imagery of cotton fields and anti-segregation picketers unfurl across the screens, along with newly filmed vignettes depicting actors in repose, their eyes closed and hands clasped, surrounded by objects: protest signs, cotton bolls, old televisions.” Read the rest of the review at the link in bio. “John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog” is on view at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, through October 11, 2026. — 1. Installation view of John Akomfrah, “The Hour Of The Dog”, at the Menil Collection, Houston, 2025. Baltimore Museum of Art: Commissioned by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Menil Collection, Houston. Photograph by Paul Hester, courtesy Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery, © John Akomfrah. 2. Installation view of Andy Warhol, “Little Race Riot”, 1964, in “John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog”. The Menil Collection, Houston. Photograph by Paul Hester, © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. 3. John Akomfrah, “The Hour Of The Dog” (still), 2025; six-channel color video, sound, 50:37 min.; Baltimore Museum of Art: Commissioned by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Menil Collection, Houston. Courtesy Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery, © John Akomfrah.