Weisman Art Foundation” demonstrates, black and white can contain multiplicities ... with varied materials and techniques from Southern California-based artists over the past half century.

“The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture ... galleries, while white and haint blue (a color that carries historical meaning in Black Southern communities) walls identify works ...

Among other things, the books argue that, though the work of Southern black artists ... paint in dusky white, pinks, and blues. “I’ve seen very few pieces of contemporary art that are that ...

This is the question posed by Maya Benton, curator of photographer Gillian Laub’s deeply impactful “Southern Rites ... Girls, both Black and white, look older than their years.