The exhibition's most attention-grabbing display is a mixed-media work called Historic Corrections by Dread Scott, a New York artist. It includes four mechanized nightsticks that repeatedly thwack four cranium-shaped ''heads'' covered in the black nylon skull caps that are popular among black and Latino youths. The piece also includes an electric chair and photos of three black and Latino men behind bars.
Violence by Police As a Theme for Art
By David M. Herszenhorn, The New York Times
December 3, 2000
