
Open Casket
The controversy surrounding the inclusion of Dana Schultz’s “Open Casket” painting at the Whitney Biennial raises questions about racial violence, the legacy of culpability, and who has the right to speak for the disenfranchised.
Sarah Schulman’s most recent books are the novel THE COSMOPOLITANS, selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the 20 best novels of 2016, and CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and The Duty of Repair. She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island.
The controversy surrounding the inclusion of Dana Schultz’s “Open Casket” painting at the Whitney Biennial raises questions about racial violence, the legacy of culpability, and who has the right to speak for the disenfranchised.
[roundtable_menu] [contributor]Ella Boureau, New York City [excerpt]I am mourning a second self, a sibling with ancestral knowledge whose presence I can only verify through absence. [/excerpt] [/contributor] [contributor]Thiago Carrapatoso, São