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Posted: 2017-03-21T14:27:43Z | Updated: 2017-03-21T21:06:23Z

A painting of Emmett Till created by a white, female artist is incensing museum-goers at this years Whitney Biennial in New York.

At the Whitney, a protest against Dana Schutz' painting of Emmett Till: \"She has nothing to say to the Black community about Black trauma.\" pic.twitter.com/C6x1JcbwRa

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At the Whitney, a protest against Dana Schutz' painting of Emmett Till: "She has nothing to say to the Black community about Black trauma." pic.twitter.com/C6x1JcbwRa

Scott W. H. Young (@hei_scott) March 17, 2017

Called Open Casket, the work depicts the 14-year-old African-American child lynched in 1955 after being falsely accused of harassing a white woman. The savage violence enacted on Tills body was on plain view during his open-casket funeral decades ago. Photos of his mutilated face plastered on newspapers alerted many around the nation to the horrifying reality of racism in America.

Brooklyn-based artist Dana Schutz painted Tills face in Open Casket as it appeared at his funeral and in the news. Bulky streaks and smudges of paint, along with cuts in the canvas surface, communicate the surreal degree of Tills disfiguration.

At the Whitney, Schutzs work has largely been perceived as an exploitation of black suffering that, even if not intended with malice, appropriates black life and death as creative fodder.

#repost from @cheyennejulien #danaschutz

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