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Black Art Matters


Black Art Matters
At the Whitney Museum, the enduring legacy of the Kamoinge photography collective 14 distinctive talents finally in the spotlight.
Ming Smith’s “America Seen Through Stars and Stripes,” New York City, circa 1976, in the show “Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.Credit.Ming Smith and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Jan. 13, 2021
It’s only fairly recently that the mainstream art world, which likes to think of itself as progressive, has fully begun to embrace the idea that Black art matters. Even a few decades ago, if you were an African-American artist, you could realistically expect to find your work excluded from major i.e. white-run museums. For you, the marketing machinery that makes careers didn’t exist. Galleries weren’t showing you. Collectors weren’t buying you. Critics weren’t looking your way. ....

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