Installation and performance artist Dread Scott has been stirring up the world with his radical, impolite, political art for more than 25 years, and he’s still doing it.
Following the April 2015 shooting death of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, Dread Scott created a flag in response. Inspired by a flag that hung outside of New York City’s NAACP headquarters during the 1920s and ’30s that read A man was lynched today, Scott used the same white-on-black color scheme and typeface to create a flag that read “A man was lynched by police today.”
