Look at Rashid Johnson’s friezes of square-headed figures, rendered in paintings, mosaics, and with black soap and wax, and you may think of those midcentury Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, or Philip Guston’s unblinking Everymen, or a motherboard haunted by the heads of humans. Johnson often refers to these figures as “Anxious Men” or “Broken Men”—emotional states that suggest the out-of-body quality of Black life in America, the endless otherness and injustice. “The healing process starts with the negotiation of blunt force trauma,” Johnson told The New York Times in 2021. “It’s the story of recovery.” This major show at the Guggenheim presents almost 90 works by Johnson—paintings, sculptures, film, and video—plus a site-specific creation. —Laura Jacobs