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Today, black artists are still sparsely represented in museums and private collections. Henri Ghent, who as Director of the Brooklyn Museum's Community Gallery is one of the few blacks to hold a job at the decision-making level in any U.S. museum, admits: "Everyone today will swear on a Bible that there is no discrimination in art. But it is still a fact that more paintings are sold over cocktails at private parties—from which blacks are excluded—than at the galleries."
All that black artists are demanding, or so they say, is fair exposure. It looks as if they are in the process of getting it. Then they will be on their own—both as blacks and as individuals. They say, properly, that they want it that way.