Dana schutz whitney biennial

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The Whitney Biennial brings to light many facets of the human experience, including conditions that are painful or difficult to confront such as violence, racism, and death. Many artists in the exhibition push in on these issues, seeking empathetic connections in an especially divisive time. For many African Americans in particular, this image has tremendous emotional resonance.

By exhibiting the painting we wanted to acknowledge the importance of this extremely consequential and solemn image in American and African American history and the history of race relations in this country. As curators of this exhibition we believe in providing a museum platform for artists to explore these critical issues. Artnet News reached out to Schutz for her response to the controversy and in an interview published Thursday, she talks about the genesis of the painting, the issues surrounding it, and how she is dealing with the wide-spread negativity.

Schutz said that the painting will not be for sale and that it has completely changed the course of her future artistic endeavors. I do think that it is better to try to engage something extremely uncomfortable, maybe impossible, and fail, than to not respond at all. An open letter asking for the work to be removed.