Art that "reflects on race" and "addresses issues of racial bias" is not art! It is propaganda and demagoguery!
Since art has been made by humans (predating AI) it is a reflection of human failures of all sorts! For Yale University to pick on race and racial bias in art is another such failure and a fashionable, very trendy one!
It reminds me sort of or has something in common with the infamous "Entartete Kunst" (degenerate art) exhibition by the Nazis in the 1920s!
Of course, the elite Yale University had to choose a queer artist! And this "Latine" [???] artist explains that the photos taken by and stored on your smartphone (he specified "iPhones") are "artwork". Such terrible banality and sycophancy is not art! Not even close in the sense to the most famous urinal in art history, i.e. the Fountain by Marcel Duchamp dating to 1917.
"... The billboard, which is titled “Composition in Black and Brown I” and will be on view near exit 44 through October, depicts a photographic collage by the Los Angeles-based artist Ken Gonzales-Day. It combines photos of portrait busts and other sculpture from the collections of the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and Yale Peabody Museum, and prompts questions about the historical constructions of race and modes of representation. ...
The artist, who is queer and Latine [???] ...
“Everybody takes pictures. You all have pictures on your iPhones, but do you think of them as artwork?” he asked the audience at the YCBA. “Generally, not, and, as a result, that protects you. Whereas my artwork puts me in the public eye. It puts me in the crosshairs of critical inquiry, and I do that willingly.” ..."
The artist, who is queer and Latine [???] ...
“Everybody takes pictures. You all have pictures on your iPhones, but do you think of them as artwork?” he asked the audience at the YCBA. “Generally, not, and, as a result, that protects you. Whereas my artwork puts me in the public eye. It puts me in the crosshairs of critical inquiry, and I do that willingly.” ..."
The YU billboard on the famous I-95 North in New Haven
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