Galleries: Artist Howardena Pindell on the frontline

Howardena Pindell is a hugely influential figure in American art whose six decade-long artistic career and activism has helped enable a subsequent generation of African American women – and indeed African Americans and women full stop - to make their mark in the art world. Born in 1943 in the midst of war, Pindell grew up in Philadelphia, the daughter of a mathematician father and a mother whose birth certificate said “White” but who Pindell says had a skin colour darker than her own, the

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