In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, paintings, drawings, prints and photos depicting the American West made our region world-famous ... given over to Western art, the other ...

Is repeatedly saying Black people exist and deserve to be a part of the Western art canon enough? Is creating spaces for white audiences to have mediated encounters with Black bodies sufficient?

As of January 2023, there are 1,157 World Heritage sites across 167 countries ... house and exhibit part of a massive collection of Western art belonging to Kojiro Matsukata (1866-1950), the ...