200 Years at the Rosenfeld
Today I received an invitation to an exhibition at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery called quite plainly “African American Art: 200 Years.” For those who are aficionados, the list of artists whose works will be shown may not come as huge surprise. But that’s what makes me so happy about this show: Many of the artists have become so well-known, so documented, so a part of art history that t hey are old hat! This is good news to me (although not to some, but I plan to write about the dissent among artists of color in a future blog) For those who want to gain a basic grounding in African-American art, this is a great place to start; there are works by nineteenth-century artists such as Robert Scott Duncanson, as well as living artists such as Elizabeth Catlett. Two hundred years of it. I want to get a good look at a few of these pieces close up and pretend, for a moment, that I could actually own one of them (I'm particularly enamored of the image at the bottom right of this entry, an...