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Can There Be Such a Thing as Truly Black Art?

Reid All About it

The words of Glenn Ligon are stenciled across the wall, one of the first things you see upon entering the 30 Americans exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art, if you can avoid being distracted by Nick Cave’s wild and fabulous Soundsuit in the next gallery.

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My Favorite 30 Americans

Reid All About it

The 30 Americans exhibition enters its third week at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The exhibition features 75 works of art from the Rubell Family Collection in Miami by 31 African American artists — 31, not 30, because there was a late addition. a question I wrote about last week.