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Canceled in Cleveland, an artist’s police violence drawings come to Mass MoCA
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The show was advertised as a series of stark drawings by artist Shaun Leonardo, each offering an unflinching look at a different Black or Latino man whose life was taken by police violence. It would have opened less than two weeks after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, just as nationwide protests were cresting.
But in March, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland scrapped the show after activists and museum staff raised concerns it would re-traumatize a community still hurting from the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice at the hands of Cleveland police in 2014.
Now, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art is one of two institutions that have helped salvage the show, which opens in North Adams this Wednesday.
Read the full story at BostonGlobe.com.
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