Holland Cotter ‘On Race and Art’

Ethnically neutral? That’s just a code-term for white, the no-color, the everything-color. For whiteness is as much — or as little — a racial category as blackness, though it is rarely acknowledged as such wherever it is the dominant, default ethnicity. Whiteness is yet another part of the postracial story. Like blackness, it has become a complicated subject for art.

For the full analysis by Holland Cotter in the New York Times (this past weekend) see here, including a slideshow of works here.