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Brooklyn Museum showcases edgy black women's art
A new exhibition cuts to the bone of what it meant to be a black woman in the 1960s struggling to carve out a life
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Fri, Apr 21, 2017 · 09:50 PM
New York
ONE reason for the hullabaloo around Dana Schutz's painting of the murdered Emmett Till in the current Whitney Biennial is the weakness of the work. It looks half-baked, unresolved.
Like a lot of recent "political" art, it doesn't try for a weight suitable to, and therefore respectful of, its racially charged, morally shattering subject. The result, to use one writer's words, is "a tasty abstraction designed purposefully or inadvertently" to evoke an image of "common oppression".
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