‘Are Your Lungs Worth More?’ An Artist Captures the Protests in New York

“It’s a direct response to some of the violence that’s been going on against black communities in our country,” the artist said.

James Tarmy

10 Jun 2020, 08:01 PM IST

‘Are Your Lungs Worth More?’ An Artist Captures the Protests in New York

Paintings are displayed on a boarded up building near the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. (Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg)

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On May 30, Kevin Claiborne, a 31-year-old artist enrolled in Columbia University’s visual arts MFA program, was on a Manhattan sidewalk photographing his fellow marchers when a police officer approached him with a baton. “He swung at my face, knees, and camera, even though I’d put my hands up,” Claiborne says. “And then ran away back into the crowd of police.” After he was beaten, Claiborne says, he was ma...

‘Are Your Lungs Worth More?’ An Artist Captures the Protests in New York

“It’s a direct response to some of the violence that’s been going on against black communities in our country,” the artist said.

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