In this episode of The Way I See It, our radio collaboration with BBC, we’ve invited author and cultural critic Roxane Gay into our galleries to discuss a work of art that inspires her. In this video, Gay discusses her reaction to Kara Walker’s monumental drawing Christ’s Entry Into Journalism (2017) and how its complexity in portraying the black experience in America inspires Gay in her own work. In this episode, MoMA curator Yasmil Raymond spoke with the great cultural commentator and writer Roxane Gay. Fortunately for all of us, they are also catching the conversations on video, bringing us the opportunity to follow behind the scenes, as the subjects talk and look at art. On the occasion of its grand reopening, the Museum of Modern Art has launched a new podcast series with the BBC entitled The Way I See It. And that’s important, so I think I feel more motivated to continue doing the work that I do than to just sit in anger.” - Roxane Gay Art doesn’t ask you to just react – it asks you to move towards something different. There is a lot of productive work that happens in these uncomfortable spaces where we are forced to confront history. And it is important that you don’t look away-that you sit in that discomfort. “Many of the images are difficult and painful and they’re supposed to be.