‘There Has Been Change’: Artist Howardena Pindell on a 1989 Article About U.S. Museums’ Exclusion of Black Artists
about 40 months ago (01/14/2021)
Howardena Pindell on the Exclusion of Black Artists in the 1980s – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Alex Greenberger Plus Icon Alex Greenberger Senior Editor, ARTnews View All January 14, 2021 1:13pm ©ARTnews Over the past several years, museums and galleries have made concerted efforts to show work by Black artists, responding to growing calls for equity. The protests have gotten louder, but the cause is not a new one, as evidenced by Patricia Failing’s article “Black Artists Today: A Case of Exclusion,” in the March 1989 issue of ARTnews . One of the artists Failing interviewed was Howardena Pindell , who had surveyed institutions and galleries, and found that their offerings were still predominantly white.