Black artists won numerous awards, joined major art galleries, and published lavishly illustrated books about their work in 2020. Early in the year, Christine Turner’s documentary “Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business” screened at Sundance, an expansive survey of Los Angeles painter Noah Davis opened at David Zwirner gallery, and “Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts offered a comprehensive look back at the first 20 years of the New York collective of Black photographers.
Then COVID-19 hit and racial justice protests swept across the nation in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, and countless other Black people. The global pandemic, racial reckoning, and contentious Presidential election defined 2020.
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