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Art News: Curators Defend Turner Prize Nominee Luke Willis Thompson

By David Schonauer   Thursday October 18, 2018

Leading curators have voiced support for the mixed-race, New Zealand-born artist Luke Willis Thompson, whose Turner Prize-nominated work “Autoportrait” has sparked anger among some groups who say that he is profiting from black suffering. Shot in 35mm, the black-and-white film shows the face of a silent Diamond Reynolds, who broadcast …

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