If we were seeing their art someplace other than the Studio Museum in Harlem, would we necessarily read it as African-American at all? And because we know it is by African-American artists, must we automatically mine it for racial and political content? The answer to both questions is no.
Art is about possibility. As Jones' fine show demonstrates, it is capacious; its history is ever-changing; and what is lost is only lost until you see it again.
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