On 26 May 2020, people protested in Minneapolis against police violence after the death of George Floyd Photo: Fibonacci Blue
The advocacy group behind a public work depicting the death of George Floyd says they still hope to show the piece in the city of Minneapolis even though the plan was thwarted last year. Don Perlis’s painting, entitled
Floyd (2020)
, was shown in Times Square in New York last October and is currently on show on a 16ft by 48ft billboard at La Cienega Boulevard and Holloway Drive near Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.
The billboard has been organised by the New York-based George Floyd Justice Billboard Committee, a group of New York-based artists that, according to its website, aims “to get a painting of George Floyd s death by Don Perlis displayed prominently on billboards around the country”.