Art Of The Day Weekly
#481 - from 13 July 2017 to 13 September 2017
Wadsworth Jarrell, Revolutionary, 1972, coll. part. © Wadsworth Jarrell
Black Power
LONDON - Superman never saved any black people is the sub-title for a painting by Barkley Hendricks. This clarifies the objective of this exhibition that explores the way black art, African-American art, has been one of the leading edge tools of the civil rights movement starting with the famous march on Washington in 1963. Benny Andrews, Faith Ringgold, and Betyee Saar are some of the artists presented in this exhibition that successfully completes Color Line – the exhibition shown at the Quai Branly museum, in Paris in the fall of 2016. Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Mohamed Ali, Aretha Franklin, and the Black Panthers are obviously in the background.
• Soul of a Nation at the Tate Modern, from 12 July to 22 October 2017.