Now showing
Titus Kaphar: Can art amend history?
About this film
Artist Titus Kaphar makes paintings and sculptures that wrestle with the struggles of the past while speaking to the diversity and advances of the present. In an unforgettable live workshop, Kaphar takes a brush full of white paint to a replica of a 17th-century Frans Hals painting, obscuring parts of the composition and bringing its hidden story into view. There's a narrative coded in art like this, Kaphar says. What happens when we shift our focus and confront unspoken truths?
Directors & creators
TED.com
Subjects
Tedtalks;TED;Talks;art;history;identity;inequality;painting;race;TED2017;2017
More from this pool