Sentences with phrase «saw open casket»

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While we might never fully know what the ethical motives were behind Lew and Lock's decision to exhibit Dana Schutz's abstract painting of Emmitt Till's open casket, we will hopefully see some resolution to this hotly debated topic in whatever exhibitions they curate next.

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At the same time, I see what happened at the 2016 Whitney Biennial with Dana Schutz's painting [Open Casket] of Emmett Till.

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.

Protestors released an open letter yesterday expressing their disappointment that the museum is honoring an artist they believe should instead be held accountable for her portrait of Emmett Till, «Open Casket» (2016), which many see not only as an insult to Till's memory but also as a white woman's violent vision of a history that isn't hopen letter yesterday expressing their disappointment that the museum is honoring an artist they believe should instead be held accountable for her portrait of Emmett Till, «Open Casket» (2016), which many see not only as an insult to Till's memory but also as a white woman's violent vision of a history that isn't hOpen Casket» (2016), which many see not only as an insult to Till's memory but also as a white woman's violent vision of a history that isn't hers.