It’s 1974. “Kung Fu Fighting” is number one on the charts, the TV show Kung Fu airs every Thursday on ABC, and Bruce Lee (who died the previous year) is a box-office draw. As a nonwhite hero battling The Man, Lee’s popularity extended to African Americans as well as Asian audiences. For a generation of artists, the kung fu phenomenon of the ’70s left an indelible impression: “I was struck by just how many people are making work about it,” says the Studio Museum’s Christine Y. Kim. The curator has selected twenty artists, including Sanford Biggers, Ellen Gallagher, Luis Gispert, Michael Joo, and Glenn Kaino, for “Black Belt,” a show of mostly new works. The catalogue, which features a roundtable discussion among the artists, the curator, and a martial arts instructor, kicks ass.