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.’’

Dipped vintage pages

Installation of 24 vintage book pages mounted on wood panels and dipped in Furnace black watercolor and gold acrylic pigments, by Tim Rollins (1955-2017), at the University Museum of Contemporary Art, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

— Photograph by Stephen Petegorsky.

Mysterious African minimalism at UMass

Untitled painting by Fred Wilson, in his show "5 takes on African Art,'' at the University Museum of Contemporary Art, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, through Dec. 17.