Even William Shakespeare, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, couldn’t clearly define beauty. He wrote, “Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye…” (which is rendered today as ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’) For Black Americans, it’s even more complicated, yet not left unexamined. A new photography exhibition at the New Jersey State Museum (their first new exhibition since the pandemic shutdown) is titled ‘Posing Beauty in African American Culture.’ “This powerful exhibition explores the beauty and complexity of Black culture while also discussing beauty as …