Thelma Golden on 'Black Art: In the Absence of Light'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Feb 17, 2021

Director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem and consulting producer Thelma Golden joins us to discuss the new HBO documentary "Black Art: In the Absence of Light," directed by Sam Pollard. Inspired by the late David Driskell’s landmark 1976 exhibition, “Two Centuries of Black American Art,” the documentary offers an illuminating introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today including Theaster Gates, Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Amy Sherald and Carrie Mae Weems. "Black Art" is available on HBO MAX.

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