How a Small Poet-Run Gallery in Harlem Set the Stage for Today’s Art World

In recent years, artists of color have garnered growing attention for their work, which they have shown—and sold—more and more frequently in the international archipelagos of the most powerful galleries. In 2019 Hauser & Wirth filled their 30,000-square-foot Los Angeles gallery with work by David Hammons, and they signed black art stars like Charles Gaines, Simone Leigh, Henry Taylor, and Amy Sherald. David Zwirner showed Kerry James Marshall in London and began representing Njid