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The Topic Is Race; the Art Is Fearless by Holland Cotter
Today, as Mr. Obama pitches the hugely attractive prospect of a postracial society, artists have, as usual, already been there, surveyed the terrain and sent back skeptical, though hope-tinged, reports.
And you can read those reports in art all around New York this spring, in retrospective surveys like "Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution" currently at the P.S 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, in the up-to-the-minute sampler that is the 2008 Whitney Biennial, in gallery shows in Chelsea and beyond, and in the plethora of art fairs clinging like barnacles to the Armory Show on Pier 94 this weekend.
Holland Cotter
