[...] I am not a spokesperson for the black community, I am a spokesperson for me and the ideas that I might be interested in. And while sometimes those ideas might line up with other people's ideas and perhaps I can speak for a collective sense of thinking, I by no means stand as the spokesperson for what every black person thinks about contemporary art or contemporary ideas or anything people might imagine I do. The reason why that is, I understand as much as I hate it, is that my shows exist in public institutions, and they stand for some people as being much more symbolic around a larger level of thought. It is not a role, even if someone offered it to me, I would take. I wouldn't want it at all. [...]
| Curator Thelma Golden responds when Gothamist asks her, among other questions, whether she feels comfortable with how some people might look to her as a spokesperson for the black community.
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hey george. i tried to send u an email but was detained by spam arrest. i'm currently waiting for my bail to be posted b4 i can continue.
in the meantime shoot me an email that i can respond to without being arrested... if possible. if not i overstand.
be easy.
yak
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