Nordic Utopia explored Black artists’ lives beyond Paris

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

Debra Brehmer’s Hyperallergic review of Nordic Utopia? at the Chazen Museum examined Black American artists who worked in Scandinavia. Paintings and objects associated with William H. Johnson, Herbert Gentry, Ronald Burns and Howard Smith complicated familiar accounts centred on Paris. Brehmer described the creative room afforded by migration while noting that the exhibition did not equate life abroad with an uncomplicated escape from racism.

Summarised from Hyperallergic · Debra Brehmer. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.