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Even after a remarkable career in art, Faith Ringgold hadn’t been the subject of a retrospective until just shy of her centennial. It will take decades to achieve equal representation of women’s work in museums

'Black is beautiful' is the acclaimed artist's first exhibition in France.

Faith Ringgold's New Museum retrospective in New York offers a study in how major artists can go overlooked.

The pioneering artist and activist gets her first major museum retrospective at the New Museum in New York

Jones grew up in New York City’s Harlem, and while still in high school she decided to be an artist. She attended City College of New York, where she received a degree in fine arts and education (1955) and an M.A. in fine arts (1959). In the mid-1950s Jones started teaching art in New York public schools, a job she held until the 1970s. After Jones married her second husband, Burdette Ringgold, in 1962, she began using his name professionally. By the 1960s Ringgold’s work had matured, refl...