African American artists get an outing in Paris

The most important exhibition of African American art ever to be mounted in France, and arguably in Continental Europe, opens in Paris on Tuesday, 4 October, at the Muse du Quai BranlyJacques Chirac (until 15 January 2017). The Color Line brings together nearly 200 works from the end of the American Civil War in 1865 up to the present day, mostly borrowed from the US.
Daniel Soutif, a curator, philosophy professor and writer, who has put together the exhibition, says that, aside from the contem