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Last week Yams, a collective of 38 mostly black and queer artists, withdrew their piece from the Whitney Biennial in protest of “Donelle Woolford,” an artwork in which a white male artist and Princeton professor creates a fictional black female artist named Donelle Woolford with the help of black actresses. The objection was the final straw in a Biennial that already featured only eight non-fictional black artists out of the 104 represented. As Walter Robinson explained: “the whiteness of the Biennial is its own punishment.”
No exhibition proves this point to be true like “Black Eye,” a Tribeca-based exhibition featuring 26 of the most electric black contemporary artists of the moment. In a dizzying variety of media, from a wide range of perspectives, the represented artists explore the complexities of identity while communicating the importance of real diversity in the art world…
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