In 2022, Steve McQueen, the British-born son of Caribbean immigrants, was knighted for his work as a filmmaker and artist, the two worlds in which he's achieved commercial and critical success.

His latest work takes his art and yet... he's achieved commercial and critical success.

His latest work takes his art in yet another new direction.

Jeffrey Brown recently joined McQueen

for a look for our Arts and Culture series, Canvas.

An enormous hall,

bathed in slowly shifting colors, filled with improvised music created by base instruments. It can feel like walking through a

strange city or dreamscape like scenes from the pandemic or being inside an immense abstract painting.

It's a space to reflect.

It's not a mirror.

It's a space where things are bouncing off you as a viewer and you can expand it into something more because

so many things come into your head.

The fact that you bring your history, you bring your past into that space and you are engaged

in that moment.

So I'm part of this art experience. How can you not be? How can you not be?

Well boy, how you feel now? Steve McQueen is best known for his films. He's the Academy Award winning director of 2013's 12 years a slave.

Earlier movies including Hunger...

I'm starting the Hunger strike more first of March Hunger more recently, the Small Acts Series.

We mustn't be victims by protagonist of all stories.

Soon the Nazis started to ban Jews from parks

and the documentary Occupied City about Amsterdam during World War II.

But he first made his name in the 1990s for his art.

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