This exhibition features a selection of seminal works by major Black artists alongside additional works by a vanguard of emerging and mid-career Black artists, all drawn from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s collection. Through a series of provocative thematic vignettes in the Julia and Larry Pollock Focus Gallery and a set of temporary installations in the permanent collection galleries, powerful and suggestive juxtapositions invite audiences to forge new artistic, social, political, and intellectual connections across time and geography, with Black art, artists, and thinkers at the core.
Currents & Constellations: Black Art in Focus
- Institution
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Grant Cycle
- Spring 2021
- Amount
- $35,000
- Type of Grant
- Exhibition Support

Ellen Gallagher Bouffant Pride, 2003. Collage of photogravures, plasticine, paint, ink, and found objects; sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Judith and James Saks in memory of Lynn and Dr. Joseph Tomarkin Endowment, 2003.340. © Ellen Gallagher. Courtesy Gagosian.

Richard Hunt, Fragmented Figure Construction, 1963. Welded steel, 56 x 26 x 26 inches. Gift of Arnold H. Maremont

Sanford Biggers, Cumulo, 2014. Spray paint, interior paint, fabric-treated acrylic paint; 72 x 74 1/2 inches. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund, 2015.82. © Sanford Biggers

Jack Whitten, Rho I, 1977. Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 84 inches. Gift of Scott C. Mueller and Margaret Fulton Mueller. © Jack Whitten

Titus Kaphar, Shadows of Liberty, 2016. Oil and rusted nails on canvas, 108 x 84 inches. Yale University Art Gallery. © Titus Kaphar
“Art is what you can get away with.”
Andy Warhol