Black Panthers meet pink spray paint in New York

A revolutionary chapter in US history is revealed in Do Not Destroy (until 18 February) at New Yorks Baxter Street Gallery. The artist Sadie Barnette used a 500-page FBI surveillance file on her father, Rodney Barnette, a founder of the Black Panther Partys Compton, California, chapter in 1968, for the new work in her solo show. The installation My Fathers FBI File: Part II (2016) shows pages that the artist has altered with pink spray paint, rhinestones and the redacted names of ten informants