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The Tragedies and Triumphs of American Athletes of Color

by Tara Sheena April 21, 2016April 21, 2016

At Fort Gansevoort Gallery, there is a new art exhibition with titular claim to the annual Division 1 men’s college basketball tournament.

Posted inArt

What Did You Do on Your Sabbatical?

by Steve Locke February 19, 2016February 29, 2016

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.

Posted inNews

A Procession of Black Love Responds to Controversial Michael Brown Exhibition in Chicago

by Kate Sierzputowski September 7, 2015September 7, 2015

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.

Posted inOpinion

Michael Brown’s Google Earth Memorial

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney August 5, 2015August 9, 2015

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.

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An Art Exhibition Featuring Michael Brown’s Body Has Many People Angry

by Claire Voon July 14, 2015July 17, 2015

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.

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A Photo Series Casts Black College Students as Criminals in Caps and Gowns

by Laura C. Mallonee June 17, 2015June 17, 2015

EJ Brown remembers being a kid and hearing older relatives talk about Rodney King, the Los Angeles taxi driver beaten by the LAPD.

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On Hearing a White Man Co-opt the Body of Michael Brown

by Rin Johnson March 20, 2015March 25, 2015

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.”

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Kenneth Goldsmith Remixes Michael Brown Autopsy Report as Poetry

by Jillian Steinhauer March 16, 2015March 19, 2015

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.

The St. Louis Museum of Art (photo by mastahanky/Flickr)
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St. Louis Museums Close Following Grand Jury Decision on Michael Brown Case

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 25, 2014November 25, 2014

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.

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Protesters Disrupt St. Louis Symphony to Perform “Requiem for Mike Brown”

by Jillian Steinhauer October 7, 2014October 9, 2014

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.

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Artists React to Ferguson and Its Discontents

by Claire Voon August 22, 2014August 26, 2014

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.

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