Critic
A Powerful Exhibition of Black Art Moves to Arkansas
“Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” just opened at Crystal Bridges, in Bentonville. And its subject matter is more urgent than ever.
“There is no America without African Americans,” write Tate curators Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley in the introduction to the catalog for the exhibition “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.”
The show, composed exclusively of work by American artists but conceived, organized, and first exhibited in 2017 at the Tate Modern in London, is an attempt to demonstrate how key these voices are to American culture, even as they had to fight to be heard.