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Mention of the Day (MOTD)
May 06, 2021
Executive Director's Report, Winter Spring 2021

Strange Fruit Mention of the Day: Kehinde Wiley's 2012 painting "Judith and Holofernes" is a modern take on a Biblical story reimagined time and again in classical arts, this time depicting a Black woman in the role of righteous Judith, and a white man in the role of the oppressor Holofernes. As the Op-ed's author Austin Dunlow points out, NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's backlash is both a blatant attempt to "race-bait" his audience and a personal failure to engage with the painting's context and meaning on even a surface level, which all art demands, "Anyone who knows anything about art knows that it’s never been painting just to paint." #StrangeFruitMOTD

Read the rest of Dunlow's Opinion here: https://www.technicianonline.com/opinion/article_f6d6dfe2-abb3-11eb-8dd…

View Kehinde Wiley's "Judith and Holofernes" here: https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/artwork/judith-and-holofernes/

View Hank Willis Thomas’s painting from the #strangefruit series, referenced in the Op-ed here: https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/artwork/the-cotton-bowl/

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