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After Covid-19 shuttered galleries across the globe, the art world is staging a cautious reopening which includes a host of pandemic-friendly, open-air exhibitions.
Last summer, as tensions rose over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, store owners in New York boarded up their businesses in anticipation of rioting or looting.
Now, weeks after former officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of Floyd s murder, a a group of artists have taken the wooden planks used to board up those shops and transformed them into outdoor art.
The artists were chosen from among 200 entrants to participate in the Plywood Protection Project, using some 200 pieces of plywood sourced from local stores.
Their sculptures address a variety of issues, from Black Lives Matter to the return of public performance in the wake of COVID-19.
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Art & Design|How Plywood From Last Yearâs Protests Became Art
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Tanda Francis in her studio, working on her sculpture “RockIt Black,” which was installed in Queensbridge Park in New York this month.Credit.Ike Edeani for The New York Times
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How Plywood From Last Yearâs Protests Became Art
During the George Floyd marches last year, businesses boarded up. This year, hundreds of those boards will be displayed in exhibitions in Minneapolis, New York and Chicago.
Tanda Francis in her studio, working on her sculpture “RockIt Black,” which was installed in Queensbridge Park in New York this month.Credit.Ike Edeani for The New York Times