In 1969, Nigel Jackson and Patricia Grey founded Acts of Art, a gallery in Greenwich Village dedicated to Black artists. Although it was short-lived, closing after only six years, Acts of Art gave dozens of Black artists institutional representation when it was difficult to open doors elsewhere. In 1971, the gallery presented “Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition,” the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s response to the Whitney’s concurrent “Contemporary Black Artists in America,” which was organized by a white curator despite the BECC’s previous demand to appoint a Black curator or consultant to the project. Fifteen of the 75 artists in the Whitney exhibition dropped out of it. Acts of Art’s brief history is studded with many such instances of pushback against the white-dominated art world of 1970s. This exhibition features work from 14 artists associated with the gallery. —Lucy Horowitz