HBO's Black Art: In the Absence of Light Trailer Reveals the Struggle to Bring Attention to Black Artists

85% of artists in major American art museum collections are white. 1.2% are black. 

That distressing fact opens this trailer for the new HBO documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light, which tells the story of David Driskell's landmark effort to organize the "Two Centuries of Black American Art" exhibition in 1976 that shined a light on that discrepancy and exposed black artists to a new audience.

Black Art: In the Absence of Light premieres February 9 at 9:00 PM ET on HBO.

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