The Black Informant

Black American art exibit…in Warsaw?

(www.wbj.pl) Black Alphabet is the first major showing of contemporary African-American art in Europe.

Polish culture looks homogeneous when contrasted with the cultural patchwork of America. A new exhibition at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw presents the African-American face of the US.

Black Alphabet, which organizers say is the first such exhibition not only in Poland but in the whole of Europe, provides the ABCs of contemporary African-American art. It presents the art’s diversity, explores its main trends, contexts and concepts, and gives voice to many distinct African-American perspectives. (more…)