Plenty of trouble
Untitled (ink and pencil on paper), in Layla Ali’s “Typology series,’’ in her show “Is Anything the Matter: Drawings by Layla Ali,’’ at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
The museum says that “the drawings explore Ali’s interest in the amalgam of race, power, gender, human frailty, murky politics, and other complex topics that are often treated as separate.’’