Art Industry News: Adrian Piper Says Paris’s Slavery Memorial Risks Becoming an ‘International Embarrassment’ + Other Stories
Plus, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts hires its first Black curator and critics are not impressed with Damien Hirst s comeback effort.
April 13, 2021
Adrian Piper after winning the Golden Lion for best artist in Okwui Enwezor s biennial exhibition All the World s Futures at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. (Photo by Awakening/Getty Images)
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US media group Vice on Friday published an interview with Ireland-based artist Matt Loughrey, who had colourised images of photos from the notorious Tuol Sleng S-21.
Bt Sopheng Cheang April 12, 2021 - 3:31 AM
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodians on Monday continued to condemn an Irish photo restorer for altering photographs of victims of their countryâs 1970s genocide to show them smiling, saying his decision and that of an international media group to publish them showed horrible judgement.
Vice on Friday published an interview with Matt Loughrey, who had colorized photos taken of prisoners of the Khmer Rouge s notorious S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, where an estimated 17,000 people suspected of being enemies of the communist regime were jailed and tortured before being executed.
Vice has since taken the article off its website and released a statement saying it was investigating the issue.