Review: Art That Empowers Social Change at DePaul Art Museum
The latest exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum, Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo, explores the legal and moral implications of torture and incarceration. Following the start of the “Global War on Terror” in 2002, the United States established an extralegal military prison at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. This location was chosen at the time to deliberately avoid U.S. and international law. Since then, it has been the site of major human rights violations, such as holding people for indefinite periods of time without trial, subjecting them to extreme interrogation methods, torture, and…