Darren Walker

The Thing About France by Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S.

Jul 24, 201933:52Arts

We first collaborated with Darren Walker , the passionate and articulate President of the Ford Foundation, on a groundbreaking exhibition entitled Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today at Colo...

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