Black Art: In the Absence of Light

Documenting David Driskell’s groundbreaking 1976 exhibition Two Centuries of Black American Art. The film, Black Art: In the Absence of Light, investigates the exhibitions impact on the 21st-century art world and a new generation of artists. (2021, dir. Sam Pollard, 85 mins., TV-MA) 

All films screened with closed captioning when available. 

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