Not Enough Color In American Art Museums

April 13, 2018

The current furor over the Brooklyn Museum’s appointment of a white woman to oversee the museum’s African Art collection is not surprising or infuriating to Steven Nelson. Nelson is an African American art historian at UCLA who specializes in African art, and he says, “There are very few of us in the field.”

Read the entire piece which features Resist grantee Equality for Flatbush here. 

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