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30 Beautiful Americans
“Last week I had a conversation with one of the security guards, who inquired, ‘Have you seen our new exhibition?’ When I assured her I had, she said, ‘I wore my Afro puff today because I saw an expression of our beauty in some of those paintings and felt proud!’ I do too.”
Gazing at stars
The curator of the Bronx Museum show, Isolde Brielmaier, has juxtaposed 31 of Ms. Cattlet’s works with pieces by 21 other artists — less to point out her direct influences on them, Ms. Brielmaier said, than to explore resonances between the older artist and the younger ones. The idea, she added, was to make the show about “what all the artists are thinking, and to look at the past and the future.”