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Open Casket, by Dana Schutz, on display in 2017. Photo: Benjamin Norman/The New York Times/Redux. Before Dana Schutz’s Open Casket (2016) came to the Whitney Biennial, the painting...
They also replaced the wall label next to “Open Casket” with a new one, acknowledging the controversy it had caused, and including a statement by Schutz, which concludes, “This painting was ...
Since the opening of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Dana Schutz’s painting of the body of the murdered Emmett Till, titled Open Casket, has triggered not just debate, but protests.
The cultural earthquake triggered by Dana Schutz’s Open Casket (2016), a painting included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, began as social media tremors in the days before the exhibition opened to the public on March 17.
A painting by Dana Schutz included in this year’s Whitney Biennial in New York has been criticized for perceived racial insensitivity. The painting depicts the mutilated face of Emmet Till, a 14-year old boy brutally murdered in 1955 after it was falsely claimed he flirted with a white woman.
Dana Schutz’s painting, Open Casket (2016), is an unsettling image that speaks to the long-standing violence that has been inflicted upon African Americans.
Dana Schutz’s painting, Open Casket (2016), is an unsettling image that speaks to the long-standing violence that has been inflicted upon African Americans. For many African Americans in ...
Open Casket is based on a real-life photo of Emmett Till’s mutilated face in an open casket. The photo is a significant image in American history, and Schutz’s decision to choose Emmett as her subject isn’t a surprise since many were comparing Michael Brown’s 2014 death to Emmett Till’s in 1955.
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘Open Casket’ was created in 2016 by Dana Schutz in Neo-Expressionism style.
At the 2017 Whitney Biennial, a prominent art show in New York, artist Dana Schutz has faced sustained protest from artists and activists over Open Casket, a painting depicting the body of Emmett Till, a black teenager brutally murdered by two white men in 1955.