The pioneering Black portrait artist Barkley L. Hendricks loved to visit the Frick Collection in New York, where he admired its Old Master European works by artists like Rembrandt and Van Dyck. Now Hendricks, who died in 2017, is the first artist of color to have a solo exhibit at the Frick. Curators say it's an important moment not only for the artist's legacy but for the museum and its place in New York's cultural …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:21PM on September 26, 2023