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The 2017 Whitney Biennial featured a controversial painting of Emmett Till, entitled Open Casket by Dana Schutz, which sparked protest and a highly circulated petition calling for the painting to be removed and destroyed.

Open Casket by American painter Dana Schutz depicts the mutilated corpse of Emmett Till, the 14 - year - old black boy murdered in 1955 after it was falsely claimed he flirted with a white woman.

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As Sir Ken's casket was carried inside the cathedral hundreds of mourners gathered under a big screen outside to watch as the service began, with opening prayers led by Canon Myles Davies, acting Dean of Liverpool.

He then told the audience that as it was an open - casket funeral, they would each be allowed, one by one, to come and look into the casket to pay their last respects.

So, one by one, each person came forward — out of morbid curiosity — to look into the open casket.

Till was returned to Chicago and his mother, who had raised him mostly by herself, insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket to show the world the brutality of the killing.

This morning, several outlets published an open letter purportedly written by artist Dana Schutz and demanding that her painting «Open Casket» be removed from the Whitney Biennopen letter purportedly written by artist Dana Schutz and demanding that her painting «Open Casket» be removed from the Whitney BiennOpen Casket» be removed from the Whitney Biennial.

Open Casket, an abstract work, refers to the funeral of black teenager Emmett Till, who was murdered by a lynch mob in Mississippi in 1955.

An equally cartoonish but more evocative burial scene on canvas hovers nearby, by Dana Schutz — years before the brutal shock of Schutz's Open Casket.

Despite this, one painting in particular is causing righteous furore: Dana Schutz's Open Casket (2016) crudely depicts the mutilated face of Emmett Till, a 14 - year - old African - American male brutally abducted and lynched by white supremacists in Mississippi on 28 August 1955, whose murderers were all acquitted.

Till's mother insisted on an open casket at the public funeral, so that the horror of her son's death was not minimized by social convention.

Horrified by police shootings of blacks in the present, she looked back to Till's death in 1955 and painted him in Open Casket.

US National Academy members pen open letter defending Dana Schutz Over 70 members and members - elect of the US's National Academy of Art have signed an open letter in support of a solo exhibition of work by artist Dana Schutz at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, after activists petitioned the ICA to cancel the show following the controversy over Schutz's painting Open Casket, which was exhibited at this year's Whitney Biennial (read Apollo's review of the Whitney exhibition heopen letter defending Dana Schutz Over 70 members and members - elect of the US's National Academy of Art have signed an open letter in support of a solo exhibition of work by artist Dana Schutz at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, after activists petitioned the ICA to cancel the show following the controversy over Schutz's painting Open Casket, which was exhibited at this year's Whitney Biennial (read Apollo's review of the Whitney exhibition heopen letter in support of a solo exhibition of work by artist Dana Schutz at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, after activists petitioned the ICA to cancel the show following the controversy over Schutz's painting Open Casket, which was exhibited at this year's Whitney Biennial (read Apollo's review of the Whitney exhibition heOpen Casket, which was exhibited at this year's Whitney Biennial (read Apollo's review of the Whitney exhibition here).

Portraits by Titus Kaphar or Kehinde Wiley are cheerful enough, but racism is not pretty — no more than Till's mutilated face in an open casket.

If the curators thought they would balance the scales by including Open Casket, thereby showing that White artists were open to engagement with racial issues, they blundered by neglecting to recognize that a White artist's engagement must be with the racial imaginary of Whiteness in order to matOpen Casket, thereby showing that White artists were open to engagement with racial issues, they blundered by neglecting to recognize that a White artist's engagement must be with the racial imaginary of Whiteness in order to matopen to engagement with racial issues, they blundered by neglecting to recognize that a White artist's engagement must be with the racial imaginary of Whiteness in order to matter.

Harmony of Difference is installed in the gallery adjacent to Open Casket, and to borrow Washington's own term, this and other works by black artists in the biennial offer compelling counterpoints to the narrative that Schutz engages.

They inspire the hybrid forms of anyone from Dana Schutz, her Open Casket, and Rashawn Griffin to the torn canvas of Al Loving and the slash - and - burn comedy of Tracey Emin, and I could easily have included Ann Shostrum's torn abstractions literally hanging by a thread as well.

By Paco Barragán The recent controversy about Dana Schutz's painting Open Casket (2016) at the Whitney Biennial is reminiscent of similar incidents in the United States that keep popping up with frenzied fury.

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Most prominent among those incidents was when attendees at the 2017 Whitney Biennial called for the painting Open Casket, by Dana Schutz, to be removed solely because Schutz is a white person, but Emmett Till, the person in the painting, is black.

The object of attention was a small painting called Open Casket (2016), by the forty - year - old painter Dana Schutz.

This consensus lasted only a few days before it was demolished by an angry cascade of angry objections to the inclusion of Dana Schutz's painting Open Casket, a semi-abstract rendering of a photograph of the corpse of Emmett Till, an African - American youth who was brutally lynched in 1955 after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman.

On March 17th, artist Bright walked into the Whitney wearing a shirt that read «BLACK DEATH SPECTACLE» in hand - written lettering, and stood in front of Open Casket (2016), a painting by the white artist Schutz in the Whitney Biennial.

Schutz is represented by three pieces, including a painting of Emmett Till, «Open Casket» (2016).

Since its opening in March, the exhibition has been widely heralded for its «political charge» (see for example reviews by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker and Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine), for its impressive diversity of artists included (though I wish this still was not so rare as to be newsworthy), and the controversies surrounding Jordan Wolfson's ultra-graphic Real violence (2017) and of course the Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, Open Casket (2016), which not only raised highly problematic issues around race and its representation in contemporary American art, censorship, and quite interestingly to me at least, the role of abstraction, also had the unfortunate side effect of overshadowing so many stronger inclusions in this year's iteration.

Taking the debate sparked by Dana Schutz's painting, Open Casket, as a starting point, the Whitney is partnering with Claudia Rankine and the Racial Imaginary Institute to hold this free program.

A discussion of the painting by artist Dana Schutz titled «Open Casket» — taken from a photograph of Emmett Till.

On Friday, the 2017 Whitney Biennial opened to the public and protesters showed up to physically block and voice their objections to «Open Casket» (2016), a painting of Emmett Till by Dana Schutz.