Protesting Artists Step Off the Streets and Into the Gallery

Catherine Hickley, The New York Times, April 17, 2018

Frankfurt — A sea of 100 multicolored banners in the atrium of the Schirn Kunsthalle here, roughly assembled using plywood,fabric and adhesive tape, provides the first indication that this art gallery is in protest mode. The 2015 installation by the British artistPhyllida Barlow is a pertinent symbol of our turbulent times — an epoch of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, marches for women and indefense of science, and demonstrations against gun violence.