At 78 and 76, McArthur Binion and Jules Allen are doing their best work. Binion was born on a cotton farm in Macon, Mississippi, in 1946; Allen, in San Francisco in 1947. Both artists arrived in New York in the 1970s, drawn to the vibrant Black avant-garde scene, and began creating work that explored the Black American experience through their respective mediums—painting for Binion, and photography for Allen. Binion, who identifies as a “Rural Modernist,” collages autobiographical material (his birth certificate, family photographs) with news clippings and music scores, overlaying it with a grid-like pattern. Allen’s black-and-white gelatin prints capture Black urban life, from the arcing spray of a fire hose to a woman seated by a church door, bowed in prayer. Over 40 years after their arrival in New York, a new exhibition lets their rich oeuvres converse. —Paulina Prosnitz