Bonus Content: Keith on collecting black artists work and what it teaches and reflects

Podcast: Compelling with Katy Wellesley Wesley · Katy Wellesley Wesley

Opublikowano: 2026-10-27

Can a work of art make visible the experience of being Black in America? In this bonus conversation on Compelling, host Katy Wellesley-Wesley asks Keith Rivers how race, politics and representation shape his life as an African American collector. Keith reflects on the difficulties he and people close to him have faced in the United States, where he grew up in Florida, and why he moved to Paris. He describes finding artists whose work helps him understand those experiences and seeing his own experience treated as worthy of attention in museums. He names Rashid Johnson, Kerry James...