Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of contemporary artists such as Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Art historians and gallery owners place the works in context, setting them against the larger social contexts of Jim Crow, WWI, the civil rights movement and the racism of the Reagan era, while contemporary artists discuss individual works by their forerunners and their ongoing influence.
Directed by Jacques Goldstein · Written by Daniel Soutif
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Jean-Michel Basquiat 
Patrick Albenque Make it a double feature
1h 47m together
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
Monk & Pannonica: An American Story
Both from Jacques Goldstein.
