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Can art amend history? | Titus Kaphar

Can art amend history? | Titus Kaphar

What happens when we shift our focus and confront unspoken truths?

TED Talks Daily · TED

August 1, 201711m 42s

Show Notes

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?

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