Black Art: In the Absence of Light, directed by Sam Pollard, debuts on February 9th at 9pm on HBO. The film chronicles the long history of African-American artists and was inspired by the 1976 exhibition “Two Centuries of Black American Art.” The film features artists such as Kerry James Marshall (CRF 1998). Watch the trailer.
Black Art a New York Times Critic’s Pick. “The point of Pollard’s film, which was also the point of Driskell’s 1976 survey, is to demonstrate that…Black artists have been making some of the best work and the most relevant work for decades, centuries. But they’ve been making it mostly on the margins, beyond the white art world’s spotlights.” Read the NYT piece.