Onamendietta's work was inspired by a brutal rape and murder on campus at Iowa. She used blood, not paint, to explore how we react when confronted with violence. Her question: Could you make art about something so awful? This is death of an artist, episode one, the hauntingumpim pum, umpum pip.
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for close to a year. But why? Revisionist History tries to follow the strange logic that governs our thinking about medical experiments.
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