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A Student Thesis Has Become a Groundbreaking Show About How Black People Have Been Pictured Across Art History

September 26, 2018 · Blog · Celebration · Uncategorized

Every student of art history will at some point come across Édouard Manet’s Olympia, a painting widely considered as a foundational work of modern art. Denise Murrell recalls the moment the lecture slide first flashed up on the screen when she was a graduate student at Columbia. “My heart started beating a little bit faster,”