It was, of course, an electrifying speech but more it was a moment of such excitement and hope that America's first
black president ushered in a new era of liberalism in the best possible sense.
But just as the presence of a
black president in the White House hasn't
ushered in an era of racial comity in America, Obama's cameo in the Biennial doesn't mean that the art world is a place of utopian equality.