Every year, an extraordinary achiever in the field of African-American art and scholarship is awarded the High Museum’s David C. Driskell Prize, the first such prize in the United States aimed specifically at Black-American art and artists.
This year, the prize goes to Naomi Beckwith, deputy director and chief curator at the Guggenheim Foundation and Museum. Described as a “catalytic thinker” by her Guggenheim colleagues, Beckwith has been lauded for her work in surveying important works by lesser-known artists like Howardena Pindell and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and for her scholarship on Black identity in contemporary art.
Beckwith will be celebrated at a High Museum gala on April 26. She joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes to talk about the work that led to this career milestone.
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