Artist Projects Gaza Message at Whitney | Art News

Art News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 9, 2026 · 1m

Artist Jonathan Allen staged a bold public intervention at the Whitney Museum, projecting urgent messages about Gaza’s humanitarian crisis onto its digital screens—using paint and plastic to hijack corporate advertising displays. His ongoing Interruptions series, active since 2017, aims to disrupt apolitical spaces and force public reckoning. One screen cited a UN report detailing Israeli forces’ targeting of Palestinian children, while another featured a powerful quote from Ta-Nehisi Coates: “If you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” Allen’s act…