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The subject matter is not Schutz’s; white free speech and white creative freedom have been founded on the constraint of others, and are not natural rights. The painting must go.
On Friday, the 2017 Whitney Biennial opened to the public and protesters showed up to physically block and voice their objections to “Open Casket” (2016), a painting of Emmett Till by Dana ...
As a free-speech absolutist, I believe artists have the right to paint whatever they want, just as strongly as I believe that protesters have the right to protest said artists.
Its 11 a.m. and we are on the roof of a New York retirement home, rolling out a thick, shiny white paint. Van Gent is one of a volunteer group that has come up here to paint the roof as part of a ...
Carnegie Mellon University has lifted restrictions surrounding painting a fence in the middle of campus — a long-held free ...
A professor at Purdue University, with some graduate students, has invented the whitest white paint in the world. It could also fight climate change.
A group of artists and art professionals is suggesting Dana Schutz’ Open Casket, on view right now at the Whitney Biennial, be “destroyed and not entered into any market or museum.” The ...
A free speech case over a pastry shop painting finally reaches trial. ... a community of more than 10,000 people near the White Mountains that draws skiers, nature lovers and shoppers.