Black Art Collector at the Met - Brief Article

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The Met hosted collectors Bill and Camille Cosby and curator, art historian and author David Driskell in a standing room only event to launch his new book The Other Side of Color (See BIBR, May/June 2001, p. 41). BIBR's EYE editor, Sandra Jackson, also director of education for the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced the program.

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