ADVERTISEMENTIn 1976, when she was 22 years old, conceptual photographer Cindy Sherman created a series of “Bus Rider” self-portraits. At the broad's Cindy Sherman exhibition next to her bus riders series -- a response to #cindygate? To see Sherman’s blackface photos hung on museum walls is jarring and viscerally disturbing. “Watching someone from MoMA defend Cindy Sherman in blackface really hurt and made me feel they had successfully silenced us. “I think Cindy Sherman, in showing those ill-conceived images, represents her own oppressive thoughts, which maybe Black publics don’t need to see,” she explained.

Source: Huffington Post August 18, 2016 16:30 UTC