Bangladesh, Nov. 26 -- In Witnessing Humanity, currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Wilson transforms the act of bearing witness into an emancipatory gesture. To testify through art is, for Wilson, to reclaim visibility from systems that deny it—to render the suffering and resilience of Black life as expressions of a universal human condition. His figures do not merely endure; they reveal. Through this revelation, artist and viewer enter a shared process of liberation, affirming that truth, once made visible, carries within it the possibility of collective freedom. Wilsons art refuses the comforts of relativism: it insists that beauty and pain alike disclose enduring truths about equality and the unshakeable dig...