The painting that has reopened America’s wounds over race and exploitation

Open Casket by Dana Schutz on display at the Whitney Museum in New York. An open letter has called for the painting to be destroyed. Photograph: Alina Heineke/AP

 
New York art world bitterly divided over ‘cultural appropriation’ of 1955 photograph of murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till

It is one of the most powerful images to emerge from the racism that infected the southern states of America in the 1950s – the photograph of a badly beaten 14-year-old boy, lynched after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman, lying in a funeral casket.
Now protests over a painting based on the photograph, included in a New York museum show, are dividing the city’s art world amid claims of racist exploitation and censorship.
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