Beyond the Great Eclipse: Newsweek The Riots in Color confronts the viewer with layered visual and historical tension, drawing directly from archival news media to interrogate how images of racial violence and civil unrest are framed, circulated, and ultimately absorbed into the cultural record. Produced in 2009 through the technically demanding process of direct to plate photogravure etching and aquatint, the work carries the hallmark tonal richness of Arceneaux's printmaking practice, where the warm, ink-saturated depths of the photogravure tradition meet the nuanced tonal gradations that aquatint affords. The result is an object that feels simultaneously documentary and elegiac, holding the weight of journalism while exposing its constructed nature. Edgar Arceneaux is widely recognized for his interdisciplinary practice, which spans installation, performance, and works on paper, all united by a commitment to examining the gaps and distortions within historical narratives, particularly those shaped by race in America. This print, published by Paulson Fontaine Press in an edition of forty and signed by the artist, exemplifies the collaborative rigor the press brings to its projects, translating Arceneaux's conceptual ambitions into a physically commanding and meticulously crafted object. The relatively intimate scale of 63.5 by 44.5 centimeters concentrates the work's charge, demanding close looking and resisting any easy resolution. For collectors, this edition represents a meaningful intersection of historical inquiry and material refinement. Printmaking here is not a secondary medium but the essential vehicle through which Arceneaux's argument is made, with the etched plate itself becoming a kind of archive, a surface that holds and transmits a contested image across time. Works from this series remain a compelling acquisition for those drawn to socially engaged practice grounded in formal rigor.