As long as the art world has been bastion for self-expression and radical system-challenging, the structures that make it up have often been exclusionary and narrow-minded. Part of the work of the current fight against injustice is to examine the country’s most enduring fixtures- like art museums- and force the systemic hang-ups that’s baked into them…
Tag: Black artists
Betye Saar "The Legends of Black Girl's Window" MoMA Through January 4, 2020 African American artist Betye Saar is celebrated with an examination of her early work as a printmaker in exhibition The Legends of Black Girl's Window, one of a few select other exhibits that are part of MoMA's Fall 2019 opening season. After…
“Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” September 14th, 2018 - February 3rd, 2019 Brooklyn Museum: 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York The Brooklyn Museum will open “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” a collection of over 150 works from 1963 to 1983 by sixty Black artists.…