Adrian Piper, Artist
Vanilla Nightmares #20
, 1989
Medium
Charcoal drawing on <em>New York Times</em> page from Sunday, July 27, 1986
Dimensions
14 1/8 x 23 1/2 in. (35.9 x 59.7 cm)
Credit Line
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchase. Photograph © Adrian Piper Research Foundation Berlin
For her Vanilla Nightmares series of charcoal and crayon drawings, Adrian Piper appropriated pages from the New York Times and added figural scenes that complicate and contradict the newspaper’s discussion of racial issues. The opposition between the articles and the drawings emphasizes the white privilege that typically underlies the newspaper's point of view.