How Top U.S. Art Museums Excluded Black Artists During the 1980s: From the Archives
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How Top U. S. Art Museums Excluded Black Artists During the 1980s – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Patricia Failing Plus Icon Patricia Failing View All January 14, 2021 1:13pm ©ARTnews The following article first appeared in the March 1989 issue of ARTnews under the headline “Black Artists Today: A Case of Exclusion.” It is reprinted below in full with the author’s permission. Addressing a 1985 symposium, black artist Beverly Buchanan, a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships winner, recalled an encounter with a New York gallery in the early ’70s. “I walked into one gallery in SoHo and asked, ‘Are you looking at work?’ They said, ‘Yes, but we don’t show black art.’ I said, ‘Oh, good.