Dean Mouhtaropoulos via Getty ImagesPhoto by Jonathan Dorado "We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85" installation views at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York. The art associated with such a movement, celebrated today in many museums’ permanent collections, was often incompatible with black women’s histories, anxieties and desires. To truly understand the era of activism and art, the show implicitly argued, historians have to look beyond. “What do black women feel about Women’s Lib?” Toni Morrison wrote in 1971 for The New York Times. Because women artists account for fewer than a third of solo shows at major museums.

Source: Huffington Post December 28, 2017 20:37 UTC