ブルックリン美術館のインスタグラム(brooklynmuseum) - 4月5日 00時27分

On this day, 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had traveled to support African American city sanitation workers on strike. A key leader of the Civil Rights Movement, his murder heightened the pervasive disillusionment Black Americans felt with American politics and the ability for social progress achieved through exclusively judicial means. It would become a galvanizing event in the growing Black Power movement, the goals of which were the complete liberation of and self-determination for black people across the globe. Artist Sam Gilliam made this painting, titled after the fatal date, in the year following Dr. King’s assassination. Gilliam had begun staining his paintings in the mid-1960s, often with rich, vibrant paint colors including various reds. In this particular context, however, the splotches of that color carry particularly violent evocations. See this powerful work in our upcoming exhibition, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power—opening September 14. And join us on April 20 as we partner with @pen_america for #PENfest to explore Dr. King’s indelible legacy and respond to his ever-urgent question, “Where do we go from here?”

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