The exhibition of work by African-American artists, including Ming Smith, Betye Saar, William T. Williams, and Senga Nengudi, just opened at the Brooklyn Museum.
“Soul of a Nation” demonstrates different ways black artists from across the United States contended with issues of identity and representation and the role of art in a society pervaded with racism…
“It is as though what is being said is that whatever black people do in the various areas labeled art is Art—hence Black Art,” Frank Bowling wrote in the April 1971 issue of ARTnews. For the…