
07/07/2016
Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of contemporary artists such as Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Art historians and gallery owners place the works in context, setting them against the larger social contexts of Jim Crow, WWI, the civil rights movement and the racism of the Reagan era, while contemporary artists discuss individual works by their forerunners and their ongoing influence.

Whitfield Lovell
as

Kerry James Marshall
as

Ellen Gallagher
as

Richard Powell
as

Robert O'Meally
as

Michael Rosenfeld
as

Bridget Moore
as

Eric Foner
as

David C. Driskell
as

Jean-Michel Basquiat
as

Walter Evans
as

Patrick Albenque
as Narrator
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