Analyzing Race and Gender Bias Amid All the News That’s Fit to Print
The New York Times profiled artist Alexandra Bell for her Counternarratives project–now on view on buildings around the campus–which features supersized New York Times articles edited to reveal biases and assumptions about race and gender.
“It’s imperative to show how a turn of phrase or a misplaced photo has real consequences for people at the margins who are still suffering under the weight of unfair and biased representation,” Bell told The Times.
Bell’s Bennington exhibition is the first display of her work by an academic institution and the first to present her radical re-edits as a series. This grouping showcases how the artist disrupts manifestations of bias in reporting on different topics, from police violence to athletic competition, and confounds journalistic conventions of timeliness.