A discussion of “The King’s Two Bodies,” a chapter from English’s forthcoming book on art in an age of racial terror, which takes as its subject a cast nickel replica of the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.
Darby English is the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. His publications include 1971: A Year in the Life of Color (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness (MIT Press, 2007). He is co-editor of Art History and Emergency (Yale University Press, 2016) and Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress (MIT Press, 2002 and Rizzoli, 2007). English’s short-form writing has appeared in Art Bulletin, Artforum, caa.reviews, The Guardian, The International Review of African-American Art and other venues.
Lunch will be served; please RSVP to Andrew Trimmer (trimmer.31) by Feb. 23.
