Black artists want the same things any other artist wants. Opportunities to develop our art, to exhibit our art, to be compensated for our art, to be judged as an artist by the quality of our art, and to be able to create our art under a minimum of financial and emotional stress.

Like a juggler twirling multiple plates, Dyani White Hawk, in her exhibition “Speaking to Relatives,” seamlessly melds different cultures, languages and aesthetic traditions into one immersive event.

After more than a year’s worth of pandemic upheaval, the museum world is still navigating choppy seas.

Among the many exhibitions upended by the pandemic, a stellar show of recently conserved objects in the collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was put on hold when the museum closed in March 2020.