Something shifted the moment Leilani Lewis stood inside the Elbow Church art space in Amersfoort in the Netherlands this past September. “As journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones delivered a sharp lecture beneath Nina Chanel Abney's monumental installations,” theleilanilewis writes, “it became clear that this Medieval city was presenting narratives of Black American life that the United States is increasingly unwilling to hold.” In fact, this year, four major European museums simultaneously staged ambitious exhibitions of Black American artists. “This moment feels less like a coincidence and more like a long-overdue reckoning,” Lewis writes. “In July, Amy Sherald withdrew her exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery after it reportedly deemed her painting of a Black transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty too controversial. And according to the American Alliance of Museums, one-third of museums in the United States have lost federal funding since Trump took ...