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Lynching Postcards Explores a Dark Corner of US History

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel March 7, 2022March 7, 2022

Director Christine Turner explains to Hyperallergic how her documentary short interrogates the white gaze and seeks to reaffirm some ugly truths about the past.

Posted inHistory

How a Dutch Painting Dominates the Way We See a 17th-Century Lynching

Avatar photo by Tim Brinkhof March 4, 2021March 3, 2021

Jan de Baen’s “The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers” has become the dominant visual representation of the brothers’ lynching, but whether it deserves this honor is debatable.

Posted inArt

What We Can Learn From a Vanished Mural of Racist Violence

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber June 21, 2020June 16, 2022

John Wilson’s 1952 mural “The Incident,” is a salient meditation on the horrors of lynching and though physically lost, the mural endures in archival images, preliminary sketches, and studies.

Posted inOpinion

When a Lynching Memorial Becomes a Photo Opportunity

by William C. Anderson December 27, 2018March 12, 2019

A reflection on the commodification of Jim Crow’s violence through public memorials.

Posted inArt

A New Website Tells the Stories of Over 4,000 Lynchings in the United States

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 16, 2017

The Equal Justice Initiative, with the support of Google, launched an online interactive that visualizes lynchings from the Civil War to World War II in 20 American states.

Posted inArt

Creating a Spatial History of Slavery through Abstraction

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 4, 2016April 5, 2016

Minimalist abstraction of the 20th century often feels placeless. Tony Smith’s angular, inky sculptures could have crawled out of a dimension void of organic life; Mark Rothko’s repeating black canvases in a Houston chapel reflected the space’s lack of specific religion.

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Early Anti-Lynching Plays, Read in Light of Ferguson

by Alexis Clements February 26, 2015February 25, 2015

Just two days before the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) released its report “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror,” I sat in the audience at JACK in Brooklyn for a reading of playwright Mary P. Burrill’s 1919 anti-lynching play Aftermath.

Yale University Press Presents The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments
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Yale University Press Presents The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments

Kelly Grovier discusses his book on the history of pigments in a new podcast episode, making the case for how myths and science can enrich how we experience art.

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