Art: Going Back to Africa

At New York City's P.S. 1, a show of Afro-American art

The exhibition of "Afro-American Abstraction," being held in the "alternative space" of a rehabilitated New York City school building called P.S. 1, is a modest sort of landmark. It has been some years since any New York museum paid much attention to what black artists were doing. There was a flurry of group shows in the late '60s and early '70s, and then the subject was all but dropped. A few of the artists in the diverse P.S. 1 show are fairly well known...