"IN 2018, CULTURE IS BEING EVALUATED FOR ITS MORAL CORRECTNESS MORE THAN FOR ITS QUALITY. --By WESLEY MORRIS OCT. 3, 2018
The civilized dinner party is probably over — even when you’re dining with friends.
Everything means too much now. Everything.
Our politics, obviously.
But our genders, our food, our television.
...No event captures this anxious confusion of activism and criticism better than the time a group of artists descended upon the Whitney Museum during last year’s biennial and demanded, in a protest letter, for the destruction of a painting that morally offended them.
Their issue wasn’t only with the painting but with the painter.
Dana Schutz’s “Open Casket” depicted Emmett Till in a whirring rictus of earth tones.
It’s a vague, unsure, respectfully deferential work, different from Schutz’s bigger, more dazzlingly audacious stuff.
One problem, according to the protesters, was that Schutz, as a white woman, had no business painting this young black martyr.
This was not, the letter argued, her story..."
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