black art
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Strictly speaking, these galleries—limited by gaps in the DIA’s holdings and by space—provide only an abbreviated history of black art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
"All dental students are trained to make dentures but the black art of making them is being lost as they are not getting the practice," he says.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2022
These streets of mud, in which the dead were laid out, also swarmed with “a wicked generation of pretenders to magic, to the black art, as they called it.”
From New York Times ● May 10, 2021
It is home to one of the city’s most enviable collections of 19th and 20th-century black art, at the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2020
The new tank changed the cyclotron’s reputation from a device whose efficient management was something of a black art, toward one that could be operated predictably under almost any condition.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
