Art
The Tragedies and Triumphs of American Athletes of Color
At Fort Gansevoort Gallery, there is a new art exhibition with titular claim to the annual Division 1 men’s college basketball tournament.
Michael Brown
Art
What Did You Do on Your Sabbatical?
BOSTON — I was on sabbatical, so I had time. Time to create turned into time to think, and I couldn’t think about anything other than death.
News
A Procession of Black Love Responds to Controversial Michael Brown Exhibition in Chicago
CHICAGO — After the scene of Michael Brown’s death was staged at Guichard Gallery as an artwork this summer, there was a public discussion about the exhibition and the fact that it was created by an artist who identified as white, Ti-Rock Moore.
Opinion
Michael Brown’s Google Earth Memorial
On August 4, Jessica Lussenhop (@Lussenpop) posted an image culled from Google Earth of the memorial for Michael Brown, the teenager shot to death by the former police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri last year.
Art
An Art Exhibition Featuring Michael Brown's Body Has Many People Angry
Almost one year after the shooting of Michael Brown by former police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, the scene of Brown's death has re-appeared in the form of an artwork in a Chicago gallery.
Art
A Photo Series Casts Black College Students as Criminals in Caps and Gowns
EJ Brown remembers being a kid and hearing older relatives talk about Rodney King, the Los Angeles taxi driver beaten by the LAPD.
Art
On Hearing a White Man Co-opt the Body of Michael Brown
On a Friday evening, my partner and I wander into an auditorium at Brown University and find ourselves five minutes into what is apparently Kenneth Goldsmith’s poem “The Body of Michael Brown.”
News
Kenneth Goldsmith Remixes Michael Brown Autopsy Report as Poetry
This past weekend, at a conference called Interrupt 3 at Brown University, poet Kenneth Goldsmith read Michael Brown's St. Louis County autopsy report as a poem.
In Brief
St. Louis Museums Close Following Grand Jury Decision on Michael Brown Case
Museums in St. Louis are closed today due to the protests that have been underway in the suburb of Ferguson since last night, when the grand jury in the Michael Brown murder case announced its decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson.
In Brief
Protesters Disrupt St. Louis Symphony to Perform "Requiem for Mike Brown"
Last weekend, a flash mob of singers interrupted a concert of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra to stage a "Requiem for Mike Brown," the unarmed teenager who was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, this past August.
Art
Artists React to Ferguson and Its Discontents
As a black man played dead at the base of one of Philadelphia's most iconic sculptures, tourists continued snapping photographs in front of the landmark, the intrusive body lying at their feet recalling that of the slain Michael Brown.