White Artist's Emmett Till Painting Under Fire At Ny Museum

NEW YORK (AP) — A painting of lynching victim Emmett Till on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York was the subject of a weeklong protest by a black artist who decried the canvas as "an injustice" because it was painted by a white woman. Parker Bright spent several days this week standing in front of the painting by Dana Schutz. Till was a 14-year-old black boy killed by white men in Mississippi in 1955. In an interview published Thursday in Artnet News, Schutz said when she made the painting, it was a response to "a summer that felt like a state of emergency.Read more on NewsOK.com

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