Her modifying profession began with proofreading at ad businesses, then at Sterling Publishing, the place she moved in mere months from proofreader to copy editor to developmental and project editor of nonfiction books. In that post, she led some two dozen titles from manuscript to sure pages earlier than Barnes & Noble acquired the firm. Among other such work was that for the Earth Institute and Teachers College at Columbia University, HarperCollins, Acanthus Press, the National Resources Defense Council, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Girl Scouts. Nancy labored at Art+Auction and Modern Painters before becoming a member of ARTnews and Art in America in 2016. All the whereas, geopolitics formed the art world, transforming how museums, galleries, and public sale homes functioned—and periodically sending them into tumult. “African Modernism in America, 1947–67” speaks to the rich vary of inventive responses to the entanglement of midcentury modernism, African nationalism, …