Paris Noir, the show recently launched at the Centre Pompidou in Paris brings together over 150 artists, writers, and thinkers of African descent associated with and responsive to the cultural, political, and intellectual milieu in Paris between the establishment of the quarterly Présence Africaine in 1947 and 2000. Displayed on the sixth floor of the museum, the show emphasizes the varieties of communities which were created by people living in or coming through Paris during this fifty-year period. Included in the show are four pieces by the late Pennsylvania-based artist, William R. Hutson, the Jennie Brown Cook artist in-residence at Franklin & Marshall College, who passed away in 2022.
