Tavares Strachan's exhibition 'The Day Tomorrow Began' has opened at the Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti, featuring a dense, sensory-rich installation that spans mediums including a tea room, rum bar, barbershop, and a room filled with rice grass. Central to the show is 'The Encyclopedia Room,' containing 'The Encyclopedia of Invisibility'—a massive tome cataloging over 17,000 overlooked people and events—and the wallpaper-like 'Six Thousand Years.' The exhibition also includes a striking 11-foot-tall statue of Nina Simone seated on a throne atop an upside-down Queen Victoria, titled 'In Praise of Midnight (Simone x Queen Victoria).'
The exhibition matters because it engages multiple urgent conversations—about colonialism, Black identity, museum access, and historical erasure—while actively working to create intellectual and cultural safety for non-traditional museum audiences. Strachan's work challenges who gets to be remembered and whose stories are told in art spaces, making the show a timely intervention in ongoing debates about representation, inclusion, and the role of institutions in shaping cultural memory.