Thursday, November 2, 2017

What It's Like To Be The Only Black Art Commissioner In A City (Exhausting)

"As an arts commissioner swept up in a zeitgeist where all public displays of art honoring problematic white men are on red alert, [Kilolo] Luckett is in a position where she must not only help [Pittsburgh] navigate this space, but she also gets to help discern what message the city sends to the people. As a professional art historian, this is an uneasy dance of preserving artistic freedoms and expressions and also making sure decisions are not merely capitulations to political correction."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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