And youve probably been to plenty of parties in your time but none come close to this the zero gravity policy do not try so hard. But we begin with a rather unique exhibition that has just opened in paris which is renaming classic paintings its at the music and is called black models from jeffrey cole to matisse and its all about black models who featured in famous paintings getting recognition or any recognition at all be chatting to my colleague david lesser leavitts in just a minute but first is report. Money a painter considered by many the father of modern art in the foreground a milk White Prostitute who stair shocks Nineteenth Century viewers and who for a century and a half has fascinated scholars but more recently the figure behind her has become
the focus of black servant the face of one of monies frequent models named for him curators have renamed this famous work. The exhibition black models of paris his music is proof that for centuries black people have had a place in fre
works here he s finally getting his dues as was f. an art lover and model from haiti. the exhibition is being hailed as an important step in france s reckoning with its racist and colonialist heritage. the we are the product of what happens during slavery and colonialism. in this product is also the construction of a view how black people see themselves and how they see others. how white people see themselves and how they see others see if we were able to construct a negative image in the past then today this exhibition allows us to deconstruct that image. because deconstructing something also means understanding that if you were able to construct something negative we can also construct a positive view. of. black models as more than a show it s