Respond: artists offer bold, urgent take on #blacklivesmatter

A gallery in New York invited artists to respond to issues of racism and police brutality in the wake of the Eric Garner case. We spoke to 11 of them“My bone to pick with the art world” says artist Joseph DeLappe, “is that it’s too slow to respond to anything.” He’s right: the New York art world in particular isn’t known for being especially responsive to current events, especially not when regarding the concerns of black folks.
But some 600 artists replied to the recent open cal