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Black Art: In the Absence of Light

I go into an institution and just absorb that place

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I go into an institution and just absorb that place

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FRED WILSON: I go into an institution
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and just absorb that place.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:50:10
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
HBO Documentary Films,Two Dollars and a Dream

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Movie Summary

An in-depth look at the works of up-and-coming Black visual artists.
Uh, and for me, it's about looking at everything - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
Uh, and for me, it's about looking at everything
I look at their collections as much as I can, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:08
I look at their collections as much as I can,
It's often not what anyone says specifically, in-- - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:14
It's often not what anyone says specifically, in--
I usually have a notebook - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:06
I usually have a notebook
It's, you know, things that I see, that I want to see again, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
It's, you know, things that I see, that I want to see a...
What you see or view is one thing - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
What you see or view is one thing
Whereas the public only sees what is created for them - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:10
Whereas the public only sees what is created for them
And I'm seeing what's not being discussed, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:08
And I'm seeing what's not being discussed,
It's the underbelly, it's what the museum-- It is, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:06
It's the underbelly, it's what the museum-- It is,
Museums now understand that they need to tell a counternarrative - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:08
Museums now understand that they need to tell a counternarra...
They need to correct what stories haven't been told - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:06
They need to correct what stories haven't been told
Through the displays that-- - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
Through the displays that--
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Here for the first time, you're seeing Black masculinity - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:11
Here for the first time, you're seeing Black masculinit...
An exhibition that really tore down - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
An exhibition that really tore down
GLENN LIGON: Thelma asked me to participate in that show - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:13
GLENN LIGON: Thelma asked me to participate in that show
It was really, really engaged with notions of identity, - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:13
It was really, really engaged with notions of identity,
DAVID: There had been all of this talk about - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:10
DAVID: There had been all of this talk about
When an exhibition was put together - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:08
When an exhibition was put together
About the African American male, it was a shock. - Black Art: In the Absence of Light 00:05
About the African American male, it was a shock.