Sentences with phrase «open casket caused»

Dana Schutz, whose painting Open Casket caused a ruckus last weekend after it appeared at the Whitney Biennial, doesn't actually want the work to be taken down and profits from other paintings of hers in the show donated to «the Black liberation movement.»

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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.

Hannah Black's open letter to the Whitney Museum demanding the removal and destruction of Schutz's Open Casket insisted that «if Black people are telling her that the painting has caused unnecessary hurt, she and you must accept the truth of topen letter to the Whitney Museum demanding the removal and destruction of Schutz's Open Casket insisted that «if Black people are telling her that the painting has caused unnecessary hurt, she and you must accept the truth of tOpen Casket insisted that «if Black people are telling her that the painting has caused unnecessary hurt, she and you must accept the truth of this.

New York - based artist Dana Schutz caused an uproar this spring when she exhibited Open Casket, a painting of Emmett Till, the 15 - year - old whose brutal murder sparked the civil rights movement.

«This past March when her painting «Open Casket» was shown at the Whitney Biennial, there were a range of responses, including many who felt that the painting embodied privilege and had caused them pain,» Medvedow said.