HYDE PARK — The DuSable Museum of African American History is hosting an evening with an artist so inflammatory that his work was condemned by the president and Congress.
Dread Scott will hold a performance art lecture about his body of work at 6 p.m. Thursday at the museum, 740 E. 56th Place.
In 1989, Scott’s “What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag?” was condemned by President George H.W. Bush because it encouraged viewers to stand on an American flag. When the U.S. Senate then tried to pass legislation banning works like Scott’s, he and three others burned American flags on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
“I make revolutionary art to propel history forward,” Scott says in an artist’s statement on his website. “This is a world where a tiny handful of people controls the great wealth and knowledge humanity as a whole has created.”
Scott will talk about his body of work and how his interest in slavery in American democracy has fueled his projects.
Tickets are $10 and available through the museum’s website.
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