Ellsworth Kelly, Louis Armstrong, And The Term – And Exhibition – ‘Blue Black’

Glenn Ligon, curator of a show at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, says, “Blue-black is the kind of black where you go, ‘Black!’ Perhaps that’s because blue-black traces its roots back to a mythic point of origin in Africa, whereas ‘black,’ along with ‘Negro’ and ‘African American,’ might be considered just one more stopping point on the way to an as-yet-unknown destination.”