12/02/24
Maitri
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Robert E. Lee Statue, Richmond, Va.: A colossal 61-foot equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee has towered above Richmond, Va., since 1890.
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Silence = Death design collective, “Silence = Death,” 1987: In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, the government and mainstream media infamously ignored the crisis.
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Dread Scott, “A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday,” 2015: From 1920 until 1938, the N.A.A.C.P. would mark lynchings by flying a stark black-and-white flag from its New York headquarters on Fifth Avenue.
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Nicky Nodjoumi, “Long Live Freedom,” 1978: Among the reasons that protest art from Iran in the late 20th century was so voluminous and potent is that Persian culture has been assailed by a variety of extreme injustices.
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Leon Golub, “White Squad V,” 1984”: For the entirety of his nearly 60-year career, the American painter Leon Golub, who died in 2004 at 82, explored the trauma of social violence through often grisly figuration.
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Robert Mapplethorpe, “Self Portrait,” 1988: There was an elegant logic to the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s obsession with skulls.
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James Luna, “The Artifact Piece,” 1987: The performance artist James Luna, who died in 2018 at age 68, had a wicked sense of humor.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled,” 1991: In May 1992, a series of 24 billboards displaying an identical image began appearing throughout New York City.
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