NYT Wonders If Till Painting Should Be Destroyed Since Artist Is White

Clay Waters
March 22nd, 2017 4:37 PM
New York Times arts reporter Randy Kennedy covered the controversy over the audacity of a white artist exhibiting a painting at the Whitney Biennial, based on photographs of the body of Emmett Till, the teenager murdered in Mississippi in 1955: “Painting of Emmett Till Draws Protests -- A white artist’s work at the Whitney Biennial has some calling for its removal.” Strikingly, the article, from…
 

I See Naked People: N.Y. Times Feels the Pain of 'Modern Art' Exhibiti

Tim Graham
April 16th, 2010 4:56 PM
The front page of Friday's New York Times has an article on people going naked in public – as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. "Some Forget You Should Not Touch the Art," quipped the headline. Reporter Claudia LaRocco relayed the outrage of a young dancer named Will Rawls as he was touched by an "older man" as he stood in the buff: "He proceeded to slide his hand onto my ribs and…