New York is awash in museums and galleries grappling with not just the past year but many years of suffering by black citizens. Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at The New Museum makes those experiences both plain and exalted. So many moving, vibrant works are in the show it’s best just to push you along to see it if you can and discover its endless examples of the obstacles of just trying to live a normal life, to get through the day. One arresting image from Arthur Jafa’s ground floor video “Love is the Message; the Message is Death” is of a mother after she is pulled over by the police, backing up with her hands up and asking “what did I do wrong>” as one of her young terrified children slowly exits the car. Her fear for them, her incomprehension, the sheer brutality of it will stay with me forever.