![]() ![]() ![]() “I met up with David at his apartment on 100th Street and Central Park West. She was the one who suggested we reach out to David Driskell,” recalls Pollard. “Originally, Henry Louis Gates and myself thought we should build it around Thelma Golden’s 1994 exhibition that was at the Whitney, The Black Male. First mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) in 1976, it’s an engrossing survey of African American art since 1750 that inspired attendees and future artists, and spurred questions surrounding representation. His new HBO-produced film Black Art: In the Absence of Light, in that same spirit, recounts David Driskell’s groundbreaking Two Centuries of Black American Art. His boundless energy – which includes a daily schedule of interviewing by Zoom, promoting and developing new projects, and teaching at NYU – has propelled him to release 10 separate documentaries over the last six years that captures both the prominent and little-known figures in African American history. I love the process of showing how films are put together,” he says. That’s a big part of keeping me in the game. “Even at this stage of my career, I still love what I do. Speaking by video call from his New York City home, Pollard’s hearty laugh accompanies a still buoyant curiosity. ![]()
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