Focus on The American People Series 20: Die and explain the Reception.
In a review in The New York Times of Ringgold's 1973 survey at the Rutgers University Art Gallery, critic Piri Halasz described Die as "an immense cry of rage," and called the series "Ringgold's most overtly ideological protests."Critic Holland Cotter has praised the work, calling it "an accurate gauge of the mood of the day" in a 2010 review in The New York Times of Ringgold's Neuberger Museum of Art retrospective. He went on to describe the work in 2022 in the Times as "an explosive scene" and "a star attraction of the Museum of Modern Art’s much-watched 2019 permanent collection rehang."Writing in The Washington Post in 2020, critic Sebastian Smee said Die "feels prophetically realistic" and that "its citrus palette of pinks and oranges against grays and blacks is nothing short of a masterpiece."
The New York Times The Washington Post Neuberger Museum of Art Piri Halasz New York Museum of Modern Art Sebastian Smee Holland Cotter Rutgers University Art Gallery