“Black women are the present and future of contemporary art. It’s something I’ve said on Instagram and a fact that continues to prove itself over and over again. From Simone Leigh becoming the first Black woman artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale later this spring, to the recent high-profile appointments of Isolde Brielmaier as the New Museum’s deputy director and Crystal Williams becoming the Rhode Island School of Design’s first Black (and Black woman)president. Black women historically and relentlessly define, preserve, ideate art and move culture. And they’ve undoubtedly helped construct the past as well.”
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