The mainstream narrative of historical American art too often looks though a Eurocentric lens. To remedy this one-sided dialogue, the Newark Museum of Art has recently rehung its eight historical galleries. Not only does the reinstallation emphasize the traditionally silenced voices of Black and indigenous peoples, it will also place 18th- and 19th-century works in conversation with 13 pieces by contemporary artists of color. Eighty artworks are focused on themes such as abolitionism, enslaved labor, and the meaning of visual representation. A tension between the oppressor and the oppressed is notable throughout, and deft juxtapositions such as Hiram Powers’s marble sculpture The Greek Slave (1847) set against walls covered in Terence Hammonds’s Black Abolitionists Wallpaper (2022–23) are springboards for discussion. —Lucy Horowitz