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...predominately white art establishment demonstrates an insidious bias on the part of curators and collectors who embrace artists willing to "sell themselves down the river." While it may be true that many of today's well-known black artists, including David Hammons, Carrie Mae Weems and Glenn Ligon, all engage powerful stereotypes, they should be considered as part of a broader artistic trend...
...whites. At one extreme are easily accessible depictions of black life, such as printmaker Varnette Honeywood's realistic portrayals of African women, which the Huxtables of TV's Cosby hung on their walls. At the other extreme are the puckish conceptual works of such younger figures as Glenn Ligon and Byron Kim and of David Hammons, their artistic godfather. Hammons, 51, paints or uses found objects to create pieces that raise unsettling questions about the significance of race. For example, after his 16-ft. by 14-ft. portrait of a blond, blue-eyed Jesse Jackson titled How Ya Like...
...number of political works further extend the symbolic scope of black in the exhibit. Wernes Buettner and Ilubert Kiecol's scatstered and swirling black conveys the chaos of post-World War If city in Germany with unusual force. One especially powerful work in the exhibit, Glenn Ligon's "Four Etchings," uses black on white and black on black type to represent the dynamics of race in society. Repeating the statement "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white, background, in black on white, the background becomes gradually black and smudged. When the type is then fully...
...Trial Watch, and occasionally as live drama on CNN. The legal bombardment is about to grow even heavier. On June 21, CBS will introduce Verdict, a prime-time series that will cover a different trial each week, using a mix of courtroom footage and interviews with the participants. (The Ligon case will be featured in one of the episodes...
...Even in states that allow televised trials, judges make the final determination as to whether TV should be admitted for a particular case; cameras are usually barred when the victim's identity needs to be protected, as in the Central Park-jogger rape trial. Nor, despite the / crowd at Ligon's trial, has TV in general turned the courtroom into the proverbial media circus. With tight ground rules, cameras and microphones can be kept relatively unobtrusive...