My Global Hustle

Art, Education, and African-American Culture is both a biography of Albert Barnes — an iconoclastic and innovative figure — and a study of the often conflicted efforts of an emergent liberalism to seek out and showcase African-American contributions to the American aesthetic tradition. “Meyers’s compelling and cogent analysis of the back story of the Barnes Foundation shines a bright light on the long-running debate over the proper place for one of the world’s most distinguished art collections…Well written and provocative, [it] is a must read for anyone who would understand the present controversy — a work of importance.”