The sale of "Past Times" by African-American artist Kerry Marshall at Sotheby's US could provide impetus for other black artists. The record-breaking hammer price of $21.1m paid by rapper Sean Combs put the artist firmly in the spotlight and means galleries in the New York will need to "expand the traditional canons of art history to embrace a more diverse approach", according to Julián Zugazagoitia, director of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Referring to paintings by black artists containing images of black Americans, Marshal said "people need to start thinking that these pictures belong in those places".
The sale of "Past Times" by African-American artist Kerry Marshall at Sotheby's New York could provide impetus for other black artists. The record-breaking hammer price of $21.1m paid by rapper Sean Combs put the artist firmly in the spotlight and means galleries in the US will need to "expand the traditional canons of art history to embrace a more diverse approach", according to Julián Zugazagoitia, director of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Referring to paintings by black artists containing images of black Americans, Marshal said "people need to start thinking that these pictures belong in those places".