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Art historians try to identify enslaved Black child in an 18th-century portrait
This post was originally released by The Artwork Newspaper, an editorial lover of CNN Style. A 12 months ago this month, when it was however closed to the public mainly because of the pandemic, the Yale Center for British Artwork (YCBA) took a main step toward interrogating a controversial 18th-century team portrait in its selection centering on an early benefactor to the college, Elihu Yale. Responding to criticism of the painting’s topic from learners and others, the YCBA taken off the do the job from a gallery wall and changed it with a pointed critique by the African American painter and sculptor Titus Kaphar. Around the same time, the museum…