It has also revolved around a white artist. On March 17, the day of the Biennial’s opening, a group of protesters gathered around Schutz’s painting in protest, blocking it from view during the museum’s open hours. “We see white artists and creators profit off of black trauma, black death, and black bodies time and time again,” she wrote. They then discussed white artist Norman Rockwell and writer Mark Twain, whose depictions of black America helped to galvanize the forward progress for civil rights. Black and her co-signers demand Schutz’s work be taken down and destroyed, as to never be publicly shown or sold in the future.

Source: Huffington Post March 23, 2017 21:45 UTC