It’s hard to say BLACK LIVES MATTER without recognizing the value of graphic representation. After all, a people’s art is a record of a people’s existence. This is why BLACK ART MATTERS.
It mattered long before Fred Wilson’s historical exhibition “Mining the Museum” exposed the hidden, and in some cases forgotten, Black African presence in fine art museum collections. It mattered long before Okwui Enwezor became the first black curator of the Venice Biennale. It mattered long before Picasso discovered African art. And now in this media-dense world, and at this critical juncture in world history, it matters more than ever.
