MILAN — A Black woman wanders through the halls of a museum, stopping to examine paintings while a voiceover cites titles and descriptions, revealing the place that Western art has often reserved to Black female bodies.

Another Black woman moves across the streets of Brooklyn, spending the day observing fellow Black women around her, her gaze moving from a crossing guard to a commuter in the subway, from a musician playing a flute to a lady painting on a bench — all living incarnations and modern interpretations of the new Venus.

These are the two main segments of “Fragments for Venus,” the latest short movie in the Miu Miu Women’s Tales series, which Miuccia Prada launched in 2011 as a commissioning platform exclusively for female filmmakers, who here were invited to express the

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