ART: Dead Michael Brown lies on floor of Chicago gallery in ‘white privilege’ exhibit
By Olaf Ekberg, July 11, 2015 CNS News
An exhibit that the artist says contains “images of white privilege in America” and “how it negatively affects the black community” has opened in Chicago.
It contains provocative caricatures of Christ on the cross with a bag over his head and the message “I can’t breathe,” multiple perversions of the American flag and cell bars made of money rolls with black faces behind them.
Included, too, are messages about “white privilege” across a backdrop of saltine cracker boxes, a black Statue of Liberty and a noose hanging from a neon sign that says “nickle ride.”
But perhaps the most provocative: a body lying on the floor representing Michael Brown–the Ferguson, Missouri teen killed last year after a scuffle with a police officer.
WGN calls them “thought-provoking images.”
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