A Black dandy is agitprop: an activist who subverts racial stereotypes by making their artistic or creative intelligence legible through sartorial choices. Shantrelle P. Lewis writes in Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style (Aperture, 2017) that a dandy is a queer figure. Photographs by Kate ElliottLong: Superfine is a multimedia exhibition, but photography is something we always return to when thinking about the Black dandy. Superfine: Tailoring Black Style elevates Blackness in the public consciousness, allowing people to understand its importance, impact, and beauty, recognizing it as art. Superfine: Tailoring Black Style is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through October 26.