The Collecting of African American Art IX: Collecting Black: An Anachronism
Darryl Atwell, a collector based in Washington, DC, has been acquiring works by artists of the African diaspora for the last eight years. His conversation with Jeffreen M. Hayes, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in African American Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art, was recorded on November 18, 2012. Part of the National Gallery of Art lecture series, The Collecting of African American Art, the conversation provides an overview of Atwell’s important collection. They also discussed the collecting of African American art in general and the rise of contemporary African American artists. Hayes is a scholar whose research interests are African American visual culture, contemporary representations of race, and art museums.
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