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(NEWARK, NJ) -- On April 29, 2021, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced that the City of Newark is calling on Newark residents to share their feedback on proposals submitted by the five finalists selected to design the new Harriet Tubman Monument. Five critically acclaimed artists: Abigail DeVille, Dread Scott, Jules Arthur, Nina Cooke John, and Vinnie Bagwell, were chosen by a jury to submit their designs.

“When I was young I wanted to be a policeman,” reads the inscription under a bust of a man’s head and neck. Look closer at the face of the bust, and the images of police officers in full riot gear, weapons raised, come into view. Now, take in the third bust in this row of five. Like a bullet wound between the eyes or a sight seared into one’s memory, the image of Rodney King’s swollen, beaten face is photo-transferred onto the figure’s forehead. The entire head and neck rotate endlessly — never pausing, never resting — on a motorized metal arm affixed to a pedestal that reads,...

“When I was young I wanted to be a policeman,” reads the inscription under a bust of a man’s head and neck. Look closer at the face of the bust, and the images of police officers in full riot gear, weapons raised, come into view. Now, take in the third bust in this row of five. Like a bullet wound between the eyes or a sight seared into one’s memory, the image of Rodney King’s swollen, beaten face is photo-transferred onto the figure's forehead. The entire head and neck rotate endlessly — never pausing, never resting — on a motorized metal arm affixed to a pedestal that reads, �...

Dread Scott's White People Can't Be Trusted with Power (2021) Photo: Marc J. Franklin Two text-based works by the artist Dread Scott, installed this week on the West 42nd Street façade of the Playwrights Horizon theatre, have already run up against the racist power structures they were made to critique. One is a 2007 piece titled Imagine a World Without America, in which the titular phrase is rendered over a map devoid of North America. The second is a new piece, with a simple white font on a black background, that reads: White people can’t be trusted with power. Wh...

VCU Students Earn Finalist Honor in NPR Competition The circle around the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue, dubbed Marcus-David Peters Circle, became a gathering place for protesters all summer. The New York Times would later recognized it - with graffiti - as the most influential work of protest art. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News) When NPR announced the 10 finalists for their annual Student Podcast Competition, Joshua Gordon, a junior studying political science, said he was surprised to learn his team was recognized.  “I mean it was surprising at first, and then I'm like, well,...