Two Views of New York, from Edward Hopper and a Historic Black Gallery
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 24, 2022
Even among the many seismic changes that the New York art world has experienced in the past seventy years or so, the legendary gallerist Linda Goode Bryant stands out. The founder of Just Above Midtown, or JAM, the historic gallery that played host to an incredible range of artists of color from 1974 to 1986, Goode Bryant established what she called a “laboratory”—a singular place where an artist’s meaning and intention could be expressed in an intellectually free ethos and without commercial interference, a down-home . . .
