Ms. Bell, 34, a Chicago native, is an African-American artist straddling two worlds dominated by white men: media and art. Though there are writers and journalists who applaud her analytical approach to deconstructing news, Ms. Bell noted, there are people in the arts who are more cautious. Inside her windowless Bushwick studio, Ms. Bell has taped drafts of her works to the wall and spread them out on the floor. (Ms. Bell mostly pastes her works onto walls in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill and Crown Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn.) Ms. Bell said she wants to help readers engage more critically with the news through her art.

Source: New York Times December 07, 2017 20:48 UTC