Wifredo Lam, a Cuban-born painter, is not exactly little-recognized. Even during his day, he was considered a cornerstone of the Surrealist movement, befriending André Breton, Pablo Picasso, and others through connections forged in France, where he first gained fame. But Lam’s work beyond Europe, which he left in 1941, remains lesser-known outside the Caribbean—something that a new retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art aims to remedy.Curated by Christophe Cherix and Beverly Adams, along with Damasia Lacroze and Eva Caston, the MoMA show, billed as Lam’s first US retrospective, comprises some 130 works, including rarely seen paintings and drawings that attest to the artist’s engagement with Afro-Caribbean traditions such as the Lucumí religion. Among those pieces is one newly acquired work from MoMA’s holdings that is making its public premiere after years in a private collection. More on that piece and others below.Read a full review of the show here.