CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/5/2019

'Among Others' takes on the past, the present and the future of blackness at MoMA

Betye Saar’s “Black Girl’s Window” (1969) is reproduced from Among Others: Blackness at MoMA, editors Darby English and Charlotte Barat’s 488-page exploration of MoMA’s unbalanced relationship with black artists, black audiences and the broader subject of racial blackness over the better part of the last century—launching today, Thursday, September 6 with a 5:30 PM signing by Darby English at the Midtown MoMA Design Store and this Sunday, September 8, with a panel discussion featuring English, Howardena Pindell, Ann Temkin, Fred Wilson and moderator Steven Nelson at MoMA PS1. "We who are alive can say the least of anyone about the future of The Museum of Modern Art,” English and Barat write. “But we can envision it and work toward what the mind’s eye sees—a MoMA future in which the black artist is not a special occasion or subject, but just one artist among others.”