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Charlotte and Charles discuss Kerry James Marshall but their views on his work are diametrically opposed; they compare notes on the opening of Lynette Yiadom - Boakye's New Museum show and find nothing in common, and they broach the controversy surrounding Open Casket (2017), Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till at this year's Whitney Biennial, and artist Parker Bright's protest of the work as a «black death spectacle».

The debates surrounding Open Casket have been crucial in drawing attention to Till's story and the ethics of representing violence.

Not exact matches

Rankine's institute hosted a public forum at the Whitney Museum of Art following the controversy surrounding «Open Casket,» the Dana Schutz painting of Emmett Till in his coffin, that appears in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

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This year's biennial drew protests surrounding Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, «Open Casket» (2016), questioning the authority of white artists to appropriate images of black suffering.

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.

On Wednesday, the art world's current inescapable and divisive topic of conversation crossed over into daytime television as Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and the other co-hosts of The View weighed in on the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, «Open Casket» (2016).

In charged times the conversation around appropriation feels particularly intractable, and I have felt that its difficulty can be traced, below one's politics, to the gut - level ambiguity of feelings (and the regard for the feelings of others), since one person's «material» is another person's life history, as the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz's Open Casket (2016) at this year's Whitney Biennial dramatically underscored.