Illuminating the histories, issues, and ideas voiced in our 2018 episode Black in America. The issue offers new learning opportunities with a timeline of landmark exhibitions and a select bibliography.
Conceptual artist Charles Gaines talks about how he has addressed politics and race since the 1970s, through philosophy, abstraction and mathematics. In August 2019, Gaines receives the prestigious 60th Annual Edward MacDowell Medal.
What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights and…