Art in Review

clipped from www.nytimes.com Art in Review Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times A mural recreating newspaper art by Emory Douglas, the official revolutionary artist of the Black Panthers in the 1960s and ’70s. By HOLLAND COTTER EMORY DOUGLAS ‘Black Panther’ The New Museum 235 Bowery, at Prince Street Lower East Side Through Oct. 18 James Baldwin wrote that “artists are here to disturb the peace.” He might have added that the artist’s job is also to create peace in the midst of disturbance. Both sides of the picture apply to the work of Emory Douglas, who from the late 1960s to the late ’70s was minister of culture in the Black Panther Party and its official revolutionary artist.

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