Show Restores ‘Erased’ Black Figures in Early American Art
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 24, 2023
Even as New York’s museums deliver a season of exhibitions in which the Black figure is emphatically, profoundly present, these institutions are reckoning with legacies of absence, invisibility and anonymity.
Along with the bold, triumphant portraiture of Henry Taylor at the Whitney and Barkley L. Hendricks . . .