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Holidays 5.27
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Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day
Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)
Bermuda Day (Bermuda)
Bloomer Day
Body Painting Day
Buttercup Day
Carnival of Nose Music
Cellophane Tape Day
Children’s Day (Nigeria)
Clean Sneakers Appreciation Day
Cultivating Comedy Day
Dia de la Madre (a.k.a. Mother's Day; Bolivia)
Emergency Medicine Day
Fête des Voisins (France)
Free Feral Cat Spay Day
Golden Gate Bridge Day
Habeas Corpus Day
International Children’s Day (Nigeria)
International Crop Duster’s Day
International Heritage Breeds Day
Janmotsav of Sri Sri Madhabdeva (Assam, India)
Joe Cool Day (Peanuts)
Lazybones Day (Luilak; Netherlands)
Marathon Lily Day (French Republic)
Meryl Streep Day
Mother’s Day (Bolivia)
National Aaron Day
National Asher Day
National Christian T-Shirt Day
National Climate Day (Switzerland)
National Gray Day
National Hairstylist Mental Health Awareness Day
National Jordan Day
National Melissa Day
National Sunscreen Day (a.k.a. Sunscreen Protection Day)
Navy Day (Japan)
Nothing to Fear Day
Old-Time Player Piano Day
Pop-Up Toaster Day
Procession of the Golden Chariot and the Battle of Lumecon (Belgium)
Pyrex Day
Rachel Carson Day
Richard Wagner Day
Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin)
Throw the Bastards Out Day
Tracky Jack Day (Australia)
World Product Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Grape Popsicle Day
Muffin Day (Sweden)
National Italian Beef Day
4th & Last Saturday in May
Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day [9 Days before 1st Monday in June]
Defeat Depression Day (Canada) [Last Saturday]
Dillo Day [Last Saturday; Northwestern University]
Drone Day [Last Saturday]
Elmer Day (UK) [Last Saturday]
International Blacksmith’s Day [4th Saturday]
International Jazz Day [Saturday before Memorial Day/9 Days before 1st Monday in June]
Julia Pierpont Day (West Virginia) [Saturday before Memorial Day]
National Learn to Swim Day [Saturday before Memorial Day]
Pride in Armed Forces Day (UK) [4th Saturday]
World Enneagram Day [Last Saturday]
Independence Days
Bartonia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Domanglia (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]
EDO (a.k.a. Empirical Dyarchy of Ohio; Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]
Imperial Kermit Empire (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Macéyon (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
AL-1995 Plus Tax (Muppetism)
Augustine of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)
St. Augustine (Positivist; Saint)
Bede the Confessor (Christian; Saint, “Father of the Church”)
Bruno of Würzburg (Christian; Saint)
Buddha Day (Sukka Tanson II; South Korea)
Edward Teach Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Eutropius of Orange (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Comus (Greek God of Drunken Revelry)
Frigga Blot (Slavic Pagan/Asatru)
Georges Rouault (Artology)
Hildebert (Christian; Saint)
Jessie Arms Botke (Artology)
John, Pope (Christian; Martyr)
Julius the Veteran (Christian; Saint)
Lojze Grozde (Christian; Saint)
Media Ver III (Pagan)
Melangell (Christian; Saint) [Hares]
Pillage Festival (Church of the SubGenius)
Season of Confusion begins (Discordian)
Shavuot ends (Judaism) [7 Sivan] (a.k.a. …
Feast of the Harvest
Feast of Weeks
Festival of Weeks
First-Fruit festival
Wheat Harvest
Weasel Tossing Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [27 of 57]
Premieres
Alice Through the Looking Glass (Film; 2016)
American Stars ’n Bars, by Neil Young (Album; 1977)
The Bob’s Burgers Movie (Animated Film; 2022)
Continuum (TV Series; 2012)
Duck Soup to Nuts (WB LT Cartoon; 1944)
An Egg Scramble (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)
The Flintstones (Film; 1994)
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1963)
Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger (Short Stories; 1962)
From Russia with Love (US Film; 1964) [James Bond #2]
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Film; 1933)
God Save the Queen, by The Sex Pistols (Song; 1977)
Love Life (TV Series; 2020)
Madagascar (Animated Film; 2005)
Melody Time (Animated Disney Film; 1948)
The Music Mice-Tro (WB MM Cartoon; 1967)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV Series; 2022)
Prelude to War (Documentary Film; 1942)
Smokey and the Bandit (Film; 1977)
Space Mountain rollercoaster (Disneyland Ride; 1977)
That’ll Be the Day, by Buddy Holly (Song; 1957)
Three Little Pigs (Disney Cartoon; 1933)
Top Gun: Maverick (Film; 2022)
The War Wagon (Film; 1967)
Winked, Blinken and Nod (Disney Cartoon; 1938)
X-Men: Apocalypse (Film; 2016)
Today’s Name Days
August, Bruno, Randolph (Austria)
Augustin, Bruno, Julije (Croatia)
Valdemar (Czech Republic)
Lucian (Denmark)
Kalvi, Klaudia (Estonia)
Ritva (Finland)
Augustin (France)
August, Bruno, Randolph (Germany)
Alypios, Ioannis Rossos (Greece)
Hella (Hungary)
Agostino, Federico, Oliviero (Italy)
Dzidra, Gunita, Henrijs, Ludolfs (Latvia)
Augustinas, Brunonas, Leonora, Virgaudas, Žymantė (Lithuania)
Cato, Katinka (Norway)
Beda, Izydor, Jan, Juliusz, Lucjan, Magdalena, Radowit (Poland)
Ioan (România)
Iveta (Slovakia)
Agustín, Julio (Spain)
Beda, Blenda (Sweden)
Broderick, Brodie, Brody, Isador, Isadora, Isadore, Isidro (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 147 of 2024; 218 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 21 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 14 of 28]
Chinese: Month 4 (Ding-Si), Day 9 (Yi-You)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 67Sivan 5783
Islamic: 7 Dhu al-Qada 1444
J Cal: 26 Bīja; Fiveday [26 of 30]
Julian: 14 May 2023
Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter
Positivist: 7 St. Paul (6th Month) [St. Augustine]
Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 3 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 69 of 90)
Zodiac: Gemini (Day 7 of 32)
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Holidays 5.27
Holidays
Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day
Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)
Bermuda Day (Bermuda)
Bloomer Day
Body Painting Day
Buttercup Day
Carnival of Nose Music
Cellophane Tape Day
Children’s Day (Nigeria)
Clean Sneakers Appreciation Day
Cultivating Comedy Day
Dia de la Madre (a.k.a. Mother's Day; Bolivia)
Emergency Medicine Day
Fête des Voisins (France)
Free Feral Cat Spay Day
Golden Gate Bridge Day
Habeas Corpus Day
International Children’s Day (Nigeria)
International Crop Duster’s Day
International Heritage Breeds Day
Janmotsav of Sri Sri Madhabdeva (Assam, India)
Joe Cool Day (Peanuts)
Lazybones Day (Luilak; Netherlands)
Marathon Lily Day (French Republic)
Meryl Streep Day
Mother’s Day (Bolivia)
National Aaron Day
National Asher Day
National Christian T-Shirt Day
National Climate Day (Switzerland)
National Gray Day
National Hairstylist Mental Health Awareness Day
National Jordan Day
National Melissa Day
National Sunscreen Day (a.k.a. Sunscreen Protection Day)
Navy Day (Japan)
Nothing to Fear Day
Old-Time Player Piano Day
Pop-Up Toaster Day
Procession of the Golden Chariot and the Battle of Lumecon (Belgium)
Pyrex Day
Rachel Carson Day
Richard Wagner Day
Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin)
Throw the Bastards Out Day
Tracky Jack Day (Australia)
World Product Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Grape Popsicle Day
Muffin Day (Sweden)
National Italian Beef Day
4th & Last Saturday in May
Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day [9 Days before 1st Monday in June]
Defeat Depression Day (Canada) [Last Saturday]
Dillo Day [Last Saturday; Northwestern University]
Drone Day [Last Saturday]
Elmer Day (UK) [Last Saturday]
International Blacksmith’s Day [4th Saturday]
International Jazz Day [Saturday before Memorial Day/9 Days before 1st Monday in June]
Julia Pierpont Day (West Virginia) [Saturday before Memorial Day]
National Learn to Swim Day [Saturday before Memorial Day]
Pride in Armed Forces Day (UK) [4th Saturday]
World Enneagram Day [Last Saturday]
Independence Days
Bartonia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Domanglia (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]
EDO (a.k.a. Empirical Dyarchy of Ohio; Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]
Imperial Kermit Empire (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Macéyon (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
AL-1995 Plus Tax (Muppetism)
Augustine of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)
St. Augustine (Positivist; Saint)
Bede the Confessor (Christian; Saint, “Father of the Church”)
Bruno of Würzburg (Christian; Saint)
Buddha Day (Sukka Tanson II; South Korea)
Edward Teach Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Eutropius of Orange (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Comus (Greek God of Drunken Revelry)
Frigga Blot (Slavic Pagan/Asatru)
Georges Rouault (Artology)
Hildebert (Christian; Saint)
Jessie Arms Botke (Artology)
John, Pope (Christian; Martyr)
Julius the Veteran (Christian; Saint)
Lojze Grozde (Christian; Saint)
Media Ver III (Pagan)
Melangell (Christian; Saint) [Hares]
Pillage Festival (Church of the SubGenius)
Season of Confusion begins (Discordian)
Shavuot ends (Judaism) [7 Sivan] (a.k.a. …
Feast of the Harvest
Feast of Weeks
Festival of Weeks
First-Fruit festival
Wheat Harvest
Weasel Tossing Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [27 of 57]
Premieres
Alice Through the Looking Glass (Film; 2016)
American Stars ’n Bars, by Neil Young (Album; 1977)
The Bob’s Burgers Movie (Animated Film; 2022)
Continuum (TV Series; 2012)
Duck Soup to Nuts (WB LT Cartoon; 1944)
An Egg Scramble (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)
The Flintstones (Film; 1994)
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1963)
Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger (Short Stories; 1962)
From Russia with Love (US Film; 1964) [James Bond #2]
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Film; 1933)
God Save the Queen, by The Sex Pistols (Song; 1977)
Love Life (TV Series; 2020)
Madagascar (Animated Film; 2005)
Melody Time (Animated Disney Film; 1948)
The Music Mice-Tro (WB MM Cartoon; 1967)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV Series; 2022)
Prelude to War (Documentary Film; 1942)
Smokey and the Bandit (Film; 1977)
Space Mountain rollercoaster (Disneyland Ride; 1977)
That’ll Be the Day, by Buddy Holly (Song; 1957)
Three Little Pigs (Disney Cartoon; 1933)
Top Gun: Maverick (Film; 2022)
The War Wagon (Film; 1967)
Winked, Blinken and Nod (Disney Cartoon; 1938)
X-Men: Apocalypse (Film; 2016)
Today’s Name Days
August, Bruno, Randolph (Austria)
Augustin, Bruno, Julije (Croatia)
Valdemar (Czech Republic)
Lucian (Denmark)
Kalvi, Klaudia (Estonia)
Ritva (Finland)
Augustin (France)
August, Bruno, Randolph (Germany)
Alypios, Ioannis Rossos (Greece)
Hella (Hungary)
Agostino, Federico, Oliviero (Italy)
Dzidra, Gunita, Henrijs, Ludolfs (Latvia)
Augustinas, Brunonas, Leonora, Virgaudas, Žymantė (Lithuania)
Cato, Katinka (Norway)
Beda, Izydor, Jan, Juliusz, Lucjan, Magdalena, Radowit (Poland)
Ioan (România)
Iveta (Slovakia)
Agustín, Julio (Spain)
Beda, Blenda (Sweden)
Broderick, Brodie, Brody, Isador, Isadora, Isadore, Isidro (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 147 of 2024; 218 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 21 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 14 of 28]
Chinese: Month 4 (Ding-Si), Day 9 (Yi-You)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 67Sivan 5783
Islamic: 7 Dhu al-Qada 1444
J Cal: 26 Bīja; Fiveday [26 of 30]
Julian: 14 May 2023
Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter
Positivist: 7 St. Paul (6th Month) [St. Augustine]
Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 3 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 69 of 90)
Zodiac: Gemini (Day 7 of 32)
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Surrealism and Experimental Drama
CL 140 Winter 2019
MM116 2-3:20pm; Office hr. 3:30-4:30 at HIB 275.
Beginning around the late nineteenth century, avant-garde art set out to decenter the human mind--from conscious to unconscious thought, from waking to dreaming, from belief to performance. What happened is not an exchange of one set for the other, but a destabilization of the relation between real and imagined life which the “surreal” object and surreal experience exemplified. Yoda’s advice, “there is no try,” is the practical result of this destabilization: any act is potentially art and any art can transform us and the world. Surrealist painting and film, experimental poetry and drama, avant-garde photography, and early newspaper comics were part of this movement. Artists and writers responded around the world to the political and imaginative potential of the movement. We will study fiction, memoir, poetry, drama, photography, painting, video art, sculpture, newspaper comics, and film, together with theories of relation to the object, to explore surrealist ideas.
Assignments: 3 short response papers (readings or interpretations of a work from the course), 1 in-class presentation, and a final project (about a secret object), or five total, each counted as 20% of the grade). Attendance is required; 4 absences are allowed, after which the course grade is negatively affected.
CL140 is a safe space for LGBTQ students. Comp Lit and the UC support and protect students without documents.
Syllabus
[W] indicates the reading is in the EEE dropbox for the class.
T JAN 8 Introduction: body, thing, shadow. Lee Miller, photography (web), Constantin Brancusi sculpture, Pablo Picasso mask paintings; Edward James gardens (web); Aleia object art and here; Kay Sage paintings; Georges Bataille, “The Lugubrious Game” (from Visions of Excess).
Th 10 André Breton, "Surrealist Manifesto" (1924); "Declaration" of 1925; Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, Un Chien Andalou (short film, 1929).
Optional: Breton, "What is Surrealism?" (1934).
T 15 Charles Baudelaire, “To the Reader,” “Spleen,” and “Heautontimoroumenos,” from Flowers of Evil; see the French text with alternative translations; Sigmund Freud, “The Manifest Content of Dreams,” Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis, lecture VII (esp. 149-153) [W]; Walt Disney/Savador Dali, Destino.
Optional: Freud, Interpretation of Dreams ch. 5 (esp. “Dream of the Botanical Monograph”) [W].
Th 17 Jean-Joseph Rabearivelos, poems (“The Black Glassmaker Whose Countless Eyeballs None Has Ever Seen,” “Pomegranate,” and “All Seasons” quoted in the essay linked); Hong-An Truong, “Explosions in the Sky (Điện Biên Phủ 1954)” interview; Remedios Varo, painting (in class).
T 22 Leonora Carrington, Down Below [W]. FIRST RESPONSE DUE.
Th 24 Leonora Carrington, Down Below [W].
T 29 Edward Lear, limericks (any 10); Meret Oppenheim, sculpture (web); Antonin Artaud, radio plays (audio in class).
Optional: Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense (selections) [W].
Th 31 Samuel Beckett, “Not I”: performed by Billie Whitelaw and by Julianne Moore (compare).
T FEB 5 Aimé Césaire, “A Return to the Native Land” (English translation given with the French original) [W], esp. sections 1-31, 96-109; Lautréamont, The Song of Maldoror 1.1-1.8 [W].
Th 7 George Herriman, Krazy Kat (newspaper cartoons) [W]. SECOND RESPONSE DUE.
T 12 Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons (”Objects”).
Th 14 Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons (”Food”). Gertrude Stein, “Interview” (1934).
Optional: Stein, Tender Buttons, “Rooms.”
T 19 Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mysterious Object at Noon (film).
Th 21 Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mysterious Object at Noon (film); Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia” (1917).
T 26 Yayoi Kusama/Jud Yarkut, “Kusama’s Self-Obliteration” (video); William Pope.L, “Personal History of Curation” (drama).
Th 28 Gertrude Stein, “Four Saints in Three Acts” (opera, 1934), especially Act I minutes 12:30-20 and Act III min. 4-6 and 20-24. About the original performance, with footage. Video of “Four Saints” Overture.
T MARCH 5 Francis Ponge, “Soap” (poems). THIRD RESPONSE DUE.
Th 7 Satoshi Kon, Paprika (film).
T 12 Satoshi Kon, Paprika (film).
Th 14 final projects
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Suggested further reading:
Christopher Bollas, The Shadow of the Object ch.1.
André Breton, Nadja (about the play Les Detraquées, pp.40-49, 51-54; about Nadja pp.63-144, 157-160) [W].
Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet.
Maya Deren, “Meshes of the Afternoon” (short film). Online.
Bob Dylan, “Visions of Johanna”; “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat”
Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny.” Standard Edition, Trans. Strachey. London: Hogarth Press.
Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), The Song of Maldoror 1.9, 2.13, 4.1, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8 [W].
Also: Maldoror 5.2, 5.5, 5.7, 6. 2, 6.6, 6.7 [W]; Maldoror read in English: audio; French original text.
Clarice Lispector, The Chandelier (novel).
Franklin Rosemont and Robin D.G. Kelly, eds., Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora. Austin: University of Texas, 2009.
Hortense Spillers, “All Things You Could Be” (essay).
“SpungeBob SquarePants” episode S12E01 (or other episodes).
D.W. Winnicott, “Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena,” “The Use of an Object” [W].
Jim Woodring, "Frank" (comic).
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Remembering Rose: Or, How a Shy Art Historian Became the Inspiration for Two Films by Susan Doll
If you liked THE MONUMENTS MEN (’14), George Clooney’s wartime drama about a group of art historians who tracked down hordes of art stolen by the Nazis, you should check out THE TRAIN (’64), John Frankenheimer’s historical action film based on the same subject. Currently streaming on FilmStruck, THE TRAIN stars Burt Lancaster as an inspector of French railways who tries to prevent a trainload of looted art from reaching Germany during WWII.
Both films feature their share of heroic male protagonists, but my favorite character in each is a woman based on a real-life art curator. In THE MONUMENTS MEN, curator Claire Simone, played by Cate Blanchett, hands over her ledger with a list of stolen artworks to the Allies near the end of the war. Simone had secretly kept track of the art stolen by Nazi officers for Hitler's proposed Führermuseum in Linz, or for the private collections of senior commanders like Goering. In THE TRAIN, curator Mademoiselle Villard, played by Suzanne Flon, knows a certain train is filled with priceless works of art and tries to persuade Lancaster’s character to intercept it.
Claire Simon and Mademoiselle Villard are based on Rose Valland, an art historian who was working as a volunteer assistant curator at the Jeu de Paume when the Nazis invaded Paris. I first heard of Rose when I read a screenplay by Debbe Goldstein titled VALLAND, which told the story of the theft of thousands of artworks by the Nazis from her point of view. To find out how the real Valland measured up to her fictional counterparts, I interviewed Ms. Goldstein, a writer with a degree in art history, about this forgotten heroine.
The daughter of a blacksmith, Valland rose above her humble beginnings in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, Isère to study drawing and art history at a teachers’ school. She later received a special diploma from the École du Louvre before becoming a volunteer assistant curator at the Jeu de Paume. According to Goldstein,
She was the overseer of the Jeu de Paume during the German occupation of France. She had been appointed by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (EER) as Special Staff for Pictorial Art. She was essentially a gatekeeper for the warehousing of the art that was confiscated and looted from the French Jews. . . . She was also the appointed tour guide, if you will, to personally escort Goering around the museum when he came to inspect the paintings for his own private collection. In all he made twenty visits. Here is where it gets good. She knew German, but she didn’t let anyone know that. When the Nazis were there, they had no idea she understood what they were talking about. In other words, they did not know she was gathering information.
So, what exactly did Valland do that resulted in the recovery of thousands of pieces of art, and why was it dangerous? Goldstein explains,
She kept a diary of every work that had been catalogued at the Jeu de Paume. In some cases, she stole negatives and copied them at home at night so she would have a visual record of the artworks. She kept copious notes of who the owners were. Her mission seemed to be to return the works to the original owners. What I loved was that she worked with the French Resistance, particularly Jacques Jaujard, the Director of Musées Nationaux. She kept him apprised of the status of what had been looted. She kept track of where the art was going to be shipped and informed the Resistance about the railroad cars that the paintings were in. They did swipe the cars with white paint so they could be identified and not blown to bits. The information she gave to her contacts prevented some of the cars from leaving Paris. She would have been executed certainly had she been discovered, and the book she kept would have also been destroyed.
Photos of Rose Valland reveal a slightly built, plain-looking woman in glasses. Dressed modestly, she wore her hair pinned up most of her life. In THE MONUMENTS MEN, efforts are made to deglamorize Cate Blanchett so she can play Claire as a modest academic, complete with glasses and matronly hairstyle. But, when she works with Matt Damon’s character to track down the artworks, she lets her hair down to become more attractive during their romantic non-romance. In THE TRAIN, Suzanne Flon also dresses modestly and wears her hair up, but she exhibits a no-nonsense manner that adds grit to her character. Commercial filmmaking is dependent on archetypes and onscreen charisma as part of the storytelling process, and these changes make Rose more exciting to watch. Still, I would like to see Debbe Goldstein’s screenplay visualized so that a more authentic depiction of Rose Valland might make it to the screen.
After WWII, Valland was at the forefront of recovering the stolen art. She joined the Commission for the Recovery of Works of Art, and she was appointed Conservator by the French Musées Nationaux. She also became the chair of the Commission for the Protection of Works of Art. According to Goldstein,
She received a commission from France to go to Germany to look for the art that had been transported there. Over 20,000 pieces had been shipped to Neuschwanstein Castle in the Bavarian Alps. With a team supplied by the Allies and France, she journeyed to Germany and to the castle to look for the artworks that had been hidden away. . . . Over 20,000 works were recovered. [There are] probably still some more there somewhere.
Rose Valland wrote a book about her experiences, Le Front de L’Art, in 1961.
I am attracted to Valland’s story, as well as any pop culture versions of it, because I am a sucker for tales of unsung heroic women who use their wits and intuition to best their enemies. Ms. Goldstein had a more thoughtful response when I asked her about her interest in Valland:
I first heard of her in a documentary entitled THE RAPE OF EUROPA. . . . I had never heard of her before, and I thought that being a graduate student in [art history] in the 1970s, I should have at least known of her. I began thinking about cultural history. I taught History of Art for many years at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. And, my first lecture included the idea that sometimes history is an accident of preservation. I was curious about what would our study of art history be, for example, if the caves at Lascaux had not been discovered. . . . What would we teach if those luscious Cézannes and gorgeous Manets had been destroyed in a box car on its way to Linz, Austria—the proposed site of Hitler’s art museum. If they had been blown up, how would we [articulate the influences on] Abstract Expressionism, or Picasso’s later work.
Ms. Goldstein’s final words make a worthy tribute to Rose Valland and the others who risked their lives for their culture:
Nothing in Valland’s narrative would present her as someone who would take such risks—except for her love of art and French culture. This quiet, unassuming art historian. I remember reading that during the occupation 800 people who worked at the Louvre went underneath the museum to live for a time to protect the work that was there. I loved the idea of what people would do for art.
#The Train#Rose Valland#FilmStruck#John Frankenheimer#The Monuments Men#StreamLine Blog#Susan Doll#Debbe Goldstein#Susan Flon
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June Historical Happenings in New York State
June 1, 1778—Cobleskill, NY destroyed by Joseph Brant, a Mohawk military leader, during the American Revolution.
June 1, 1797 – Convention between the State of New York and the Oneida Indians.
June 1, 1889—General Electric’s famous electrical engineer, Charles Steinmetz, arrives in US from Germany
June 2, 1980—Two-time Olympic gold medalists soccer player Abby Wambach is born in Rochester, NY.
June 2, 1935—Babe Ruth retires
June 3, 1621—The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherland (now New York).
June 3, 1925—Actor Tony Curtis was born in the Bronx, NY.
June 3, 1968 --Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol in his studio, known as The Factory.
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June 14, 1994—The New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup by defeating the Vancouver Canucks. It was the first time the Rangers had won the cup in 54 years.
June 15, 1863—Secretary of War Edwin Stanton telegraphed New York Governor Horatio Seymour requesting state militia troops to repel the foreseen Confederate invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania.
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A Monument Man Gives Memorials New Stories to Tell
Long before monuments were generating debates, protests and headlines over what and who should be commemorated, the Polish-born conceptual artist Krzysztof Wodiczko was broadening the scope of what memorials around the world could be, taking them well beyond their makers’ intentions.
Since the 1980s, he has been projecting videos onto historical statuary and structures, making monuments into megaphones for the powerless in society. War veterans, Hiroshima survivors, the grieving mothers of murdered children, abused female laborers — all have proclaimed their personal stories from these pedestals.
“Monuments can be useful for the living,” said Mr. Wodiczko, 76, at his studio in the East Village, the New York neighborhood he has called home since 1983. (Mr. Wodiczko, who is married to the painter Ewa Harabasz, commutes each week to Cambridge, Mass., where he has taught for the last decade at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.) “Sometimes it’s safer and easier for people to tell the truth in public,” he mused.
Two socially and politically charged public projections are currently bringing new life to monuments in Manhattan. After dusk each evening in Madison Square Park, continuing through May 10, the faces and hands of 12 resettled refugees animate the 1881 bronze statue honoring Adm. David Glasgow Farragut, a Civil War hero, which was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The refugees, in a looping projection by Mr. Wodiczko, recount their harrowing journeys to the United States from their war-torn countries, including Syria, Guatemala and Mozambique.
“People don’t really know what it means to be stateless and to flee,” one participant from Burma said in a recent phone interview. (Like the other refugees in the video, her identity is cloaked to protect family members back home.) “It was an opportunity to tell people that refugees are not here just to take,” she added.
A man who fled from Afghanistan said by telephone that he found participating to be cathartic. “It was really important for me to get it off my chest,” he said. “No one in the world would ever choose to take refuge in another country. They will be compelled for whatever reason.”
In late summer, on Governors Island, Mr. Wodiczko hopes to launch drones equipped with screens that project the blinking eyes and voices of young immigrants. It is a new iteration of the project “Loro (Them)” presented in Milan last year. “The drones actually look at us and speak, like angels,” he said.
Intense during conversations, he is immediately engaging, and also mirthful. Mr. Wodiczko described himself as a refugee, but autobiography is not a part of his work. “I am against ego art,” he said.
“Krzysztof’s own personal story is so steeped in trauma and he has an incredibly special gift for coaxing this out of people,” said Jill Medvedow, the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. She commissioned the artist’s “Bunker Hill Monument” in Charlestown, Mass., in 1998, a part of the city that had a high murder rate from 1975 through 1996 — and a rigid code of silence that left the majority of those murders unsolved. On the obelisk he projected bereaved mothers talking about their sons’ murders.
“What I remember most was that he got these mothers to speak,” Ms. Medvedow said. “It did bring people together to see it. It had a healing factor.”
Mr. Wodiczko was born in Warsaw in 1943, three days before the start of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the enormous act of Jewish resistance during World War II. His mother’s side of the family were among the thousands of Jews who perished. As a baby, he was hidden with his mother, then smuggled through the front line to the Soviet side with the help of his father’s family, who were Christian.
Mr. Wodiczko’s earliest memories were of returning to Warsaw after the war. “You’re just on the ruins of everything, human and physical,” he said.
The artist enacted his first public intervention in Poland in 1969 as a response to suppression under Communist-party rule. After receiving his graduate degree in industrial design, he created a headset and hand sensors that selectively filtered the sounds of the street as he walked through Warsaw wearing this equipment. “Personal Instrument” showed Mr. Wodiczko, like a conductor, exerting his freedom of choice, tuning out the “megaphones telling you how you should live” under the authoritarian regime.
In the mid-1970s, while working in Canada as a visiting artist, Mr. Wodiczko was called to the consulate in Toronto and told that the Polish government had decided for him that he lived in Canada permanently. “I was kicked out of Poland,” he said, incredulously. After that, he would have to apply for a visa to visit his homeland.
He moved to the gentrifying East Village. His first collaboration with a marginalized group began in 1988, when the homeless crisis peaked with the Tompkins Square Park demonstrations, near where Mr. Wodiczko lived in an apartment without heat. “Of course I had a much better situation than they did,” Mr. Wodiczko said of the homeless men he enlisted as consultants in the design of his “Homeless Vehicle.” The cart, with a missile-like projection, could be wheeled through the city and expanded for sleeping and bathroom facilities, as well as storage for can collections.
It wasn’t designed as a solution but to expose a situation “that should not exist in a civilized world,” said Mr. Wodiczko, who showed photographs of the men and these structures in an art gallery.
The vision of New York’s homeless pushing these vehicles was “a kind of nightmare,” said Manuel Borja-Villel, the director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. The dystopia of the artist’s objects “is a key element that made his work very relevant in the 1980s,” he said, “and even more relevant today.” (Mr. Wodiczko received the Hiroshima Art Prize for his achievement in contemporary art and his contribution to world peace.)
In “A House Divided…,” which goes on view Saturday at Galerie Lelong in Chelsea, Mr. Wodiczko tries to mediate the polarization threatening to rip apart the United States.
For the first time, monuments will engage in a conversation. Two eight-foot-high models of Abraham Lincoln face off, each animated by projections of residents from Staten Island, which in the 2016 election split almost 50-50 along party lines. Mr. Wodiczko filmed people who know each other — friends, colleagues, even family members — expressing opposing viewpoints, which bounce back and forth across the twin Lincolns. Their responses show more civility than is typically depicted by the media, he noted.
“The dialogue is the issue here,” said Mr. Wodiczko. “This project is not curing the problem but more a recognition of somebody else’s point of view.”
At the Harvard Art Museums this fall, he plans to stage a debate with two replicas of a Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington and projections of students exploring the meaning of democracy today.
Mr. Wodiczko’s large-scale installations sell in the low- to mid-six figures, largely to institutions like the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, Spain, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto in Japan.
A coming documentary by Maria Niro, “The Art of Un-War,” will explore Mr. Wodiczko’s 50-year career shaking up the public’s complacency around war. A focal point is his proposal, first made in 2010, to temporarily transform the Arc de Triomphe in Paris — glorifying the armies of the France’s Revolution and empire — into the World Institute for the Abolition of War. It called for this war monument to be enclosed in a latticelike structure that would allow the public to see its friezes up close while encouraging peace activists to gather.
This proposition “is a culmination of all his work,” Ms. Niro said. “He’s really questioning war in its entirety.”
Though it may never be realized during his lifetime, the proposal was “an inspiration and provocation,” Mr. Wodiczko said. “The main narrative of this Arc de Triomphe is that the path to peace is war, which is an absurd idea.”
The Arc de Triomphe is “the mother of all this nonsense all over the world,” he said. “Everything in this monument needs to be discussed.”
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Through May 10 at Madison Square Park, Manhattan; madisonsquarepark.org.
Krzysztof Wodiczko: A House Divided…
Saturday through March 7 at Galerie Lelong, Manhattan; galerielelong.com.
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Having earned the reputation of being the closest beach to Paris, Dieppe's coast has a row of castles and hotels dating back to the 19th century since the first beach resorts became fashionable.
The windswept pebble beach is invigorating in winter and promises classic fun in the sun in summer. But Dieppe is not just a resort, as you will discover at the working fishing port lined with painted houses. The city is brimming with maritime charm, in the old world fishing districts and historic castles filled with the riches of 16th-century marine expeditions. Dieppe is located on the Cote d Summer Albâtre (plasterboard coast), which is popular by impressionists such as Monet, Renoir, and Sisley, who come to paint white cliffs and seaside villages. Discover the best things to do in Dieppe.
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1. Château de Dieppe
High to the west of the harbor and fishing port, Dieppe’s 15th-century castle happens to be the oldest building in the city as it avoided a titanic bombardment by the Anglo-Dutch fleet in 1694. The flint and sandstone castle has a rectangular surface, with circular towers at each corner, but it has what is most intriguing inside.
There are three rooms dedicated to the ivory trade from the 17th century of Dieppe with Guinea, including solar discs, fans, smoking machines, inhalers, medal portraits all sculpted with great skills. great (if you don't think too much about where they come from!).
In the art collection are 12 works by cubist painter Georges Braque, who was buried not far away in Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer.
2. Église Saint-Jacques
The Dieppe chops main church started in the 1100s and was not completed until the 1500s, and therefore, it is a complete monument to every stage of gothic architecture in France. The western rose window has intricate traces, and see if you can count all the gutters on the facade because there are more than a hundred.
The famous fleet owner Jean Ango, who provided King Francis I with his ships for global exploration, was a patron of the church in the 15th century.
3. Dieppe’s Fishing Port
On foot, you can spend a few hours strolling around the docks and fishing grounds of Dieppe.
The obvious place to start is Quai Henri IV, with Dieppe's largest seaside buildings, and loads of popular bars, restaurants, and cafes with lovely views through the woods of sailing boats. Pollet neighborhood.
Dieppe is the capital of French scallops and the boats in the harbor set sail at least once a night, returning to sell scallops at the harbor market early in the morning.
4. Plage de Dieppe
Yes, it’s pebbly, but that takes nothing away from Dieppe’s main beach, which runs on for kilometers, way past the western boundary of the city. The beach area has spacious lawns, a type of green belt, separating the beach from the majestic 19th-century hotels, castles and apartment complexes on Boulevard de Verdun.
In cooler seasons you can come for the blustery and restorative sea air, working up an appetite before retiring to the fishing harbor for lunch. And in mid-September in even-numbered years is the bi-annual Kite Flying Festival, which brings vibrant colors to the beach and hosts a program full of events.
5. Le Pollet
The quaintest neighborhood in Dieppe is Le Pollet, a village on the right bank of the Arques estuary at the foot of the chalk cliffs. Instead of walking all the way around the harbor to get there you can take a shortcut on Pont Colbert, which we’ll come to later.
Le Pollet has some lovely old streets, like the cobblestone fortress, visitors climb up from the coast and have painted wooden framed houses and beautiful fishing houses with flint walls.
Stroll for a few minutes to reach the top of the cliff, where you can reach the Notre-Dame de Bonsecours chapel with the most beautiful panorama of the city and the fishing port of Dieppe.
6. Le Pont Colbert
The bridge connecting Le Pollet with the rest of Dieppe is a wonder in its own right. Le Pont Colbert is the oldest rotating bridge in the world still using the original mechanism.
The bridge is used continuously because it is the only easy way to get into the city center from Le Pollet, and when there is maritime traffic, you can see the spectacle of this structure coming back to give it. pass.
It dates back to 1889 and is a remarkable piece of technology in the late 19th century. Efforts are being made to make sure the bridge is protected as a historic monument.
7. Estran – Cité de la Mer
In this museum in the old fishing grounds, you will learn everything you need to know about the natural history and people of the Channel.
More than 1,600 square meters of galleries will introduce you to local history professions such as shipbuilding and fishing, and there are aquariums displaying species native to the waters. Some tanks are open, allowing you to touch fish and other marine life.
8. August 1942 Memorial
In a 19th-century Renaissance theater at Place Camille Saint-Saëns, there is a small exhibition to commemorate the Anglo-Canadian raid on Dieppe on August 19, 1942.
The attack was immediately annihilated. from the beginning and within hours, thousands were killed or captured, making it clear how long it would be before the Allies could make a successful invasion into the European continent.
There are documents, photographs, weapons, and uniforms from the time of the raid, and you can watch a 40-minute film with first-hand accounts by soldiers who took part in the attack.
9. Villa Perrotte
The Rue Jules Ferry is lined with red bricks on the Belle Époque townhouse, and then, half of you go to a geometric and asymmetrical white art deco mansion like nothing else on the street.
The Perrotte mansion was built in 1928, commissioned by Pierre Perrotte, who created his property using fish oil, and was designed by Parisian architect Louis Filliol. There is also contemporary art to see if you can take your eyes off the building.
10. Manoir d’Ango
We mentioned Jean Ango, owner of the 16th-century fleet at Saint-Jacques Church, and ten minutes west of Dieppe, you can find out where he lives.
Open from April to September, Ango's manor house is a lovely brick and flint palace, built by Italian architects and used as a residence until Ango died in 1551. In the yard is one of the most spectacular dovecotes that exists: It has Byzantine dome type and its walls are decorated with flint bands, bricks, sandstone, and limestone alternating.
Dovecote, a little status icon in the renaissance, can contain more than 3,200 birds and have 1,600 pigsties.
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The Religion of the Faithless Left
Ash Sharp
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Puritan Hypocrisy
BLAM goes the gun. OH NO say the victims. WHAT RACE IS THE ATTACKER I HOPE IT’S A WHITE GUY ALSO STOP ISLAMOPHOBIA say the hypocrites.
Puritans are always hypocrites. Read Part I of this series HERE.
Not much more than a decade ago now, the author and political commentator Chris Hedges published a book called American Fascists. It’s an interesting piece, written at the tail end of the turbulent Dubya administration that contended that, within a few years, we would be faced with a Christian Fascist movement in the United States. Based on the popularity of people like Pat Robertson and the politicisation of church-goers by the neocon group that put Reagan in power, Hedges contended that the old right was a threat to American freedom and democracy.
As wonderful a wordsmith as Hedges is, he was, as is sadly so usual for such a smart man, dead wrong. Correctly skewering the old Christian Right for their hypocrisy and often un-Christ-like behaviour is one thing. Predicting the future is quite another. If we are charitable to Hedges few could have seen how, in the decade since Bush, two terms of Obama would enable the hard left to take more social power than could ever have been conceived before.
In the modern age of puritanism, religion is supplanted by Neo-Marxist ideology. Intersectional Theory. Feminism. The root concept which underpins the idea that it is not okay to be White. You can see this everywhere you look, from the television to pop music, to politics and the popular press and sport. The arts of our ancestors speak to us, tell us about their times. Ours will do the same for future generations. Cave paintings teach us that the early humans had a mystical relationship with the animals they hunted and fled from. Renaissance pieces are filled with secrets and satire.
What will our art say about us?
In the realm of faith, the Leftist Puritan happily displays cognitive dissonance during our days of strife. It all boils down to race and religion in the end. If an Islamist mows people down, with a gun or otherwise, the reaction is… nothing. Dire warnings about the dangers of the mythical Islamophobia, perhaps.
Heaven forfend that a white male shoots people. Not only is this an indictment of his race, but he also transforms into an ideologically driven terrorist (Whiteness is political, you know), and a reason to curse out the NRA, and demand gun control. Don’t forget to accuse your enemies of politicising tragedies when it suits your agenda, though.
Shut
If Trump truly cared about the suffering in Syria, he wouldn't have a racist anti-refugee policy. But, hey, bombs distract from scandal!
— Wil 'Kick the Nazis off the tweeters' Wheaton (@wilw) April 7, 2017
UP
I join my fellow Moderate White Person in wishing an Eid of peace, and I also condemn the extremist clan of Trump. http://bit.ly/2leXZRY
— Wil 'Kick the Nazis off the tweeters' Wheaton (@wilw) September 13, 2016
WESLEY
The murdered victims were in a church. If prayers did anything, they'd still be alive, you worthless sack of shit. http://bit.ly/2lm8wKm
— Wil 'Kick the Nazis off the tweeters' Wheaton (@wilw) November 5, 2017
Islam is Peace. Prayers are Worthless. Guns are Bad. I Love Big Brother.
It will stun future generations to hear that we have become such a self-hating society, riddled with such preposterous levels of self-inflicted and undeserved guilt and paranoia.
It wasn’t always like this. In 1979, the seminal comedy group *Monty Python released Life of Brian. The movie revolves around a man mistaken for a messiah. The religious right was apoplectic and it was awesome. And that is coming from a Christian, so save your Jehovahs.
“[Life of Brian] isn’t blasphemous because it doesn’t touch on belief at all. It is heretical because it touches on dogma and the interpretation of belief, rather than belief itself.” ~ Terry Jones
The movie mainly skewered religious hypocrisy and was so controversial at the time that it was banned in several countries and had to rely on George Harrison (of The Beatles) for funding. It remains one of the finest comedies ever produced.
On re-watching the movie recently, I was struck how mild the religious satire really is in this film. In all honesty, I found myself far more interested in the non-theological scenes.
There is a sub-plot to the film which features several Left Wing revolutionary groups all seeking to oust the Romans from Judea. These groups were analogous to hard left British groups in the late 1970s, including the then powerful trade unionists. It is almost as if our timelines are running in opposite directions. As the power of the Church has diminished, to the point where (rightly) no-one would dare attempt to ban a movie for blasphemy, the loony left has arisen, Gojira in Tokyo Harbour.
While the interminable and unending squabbling between the intersections of the left is still laughable today, it cannot be denied that it is the modern day facsimilies of the right-on Reg (John Cleese) and the People’s Front of Judea that are holding the social power. Despite everyone knowing what capitalism has done for us, still, they cry out ‘Oppression!’
Apart from a free market, advances in technology, healthcare, living standards, nearly eliminating child mortality, better food, the internet, a life expectancy of over eighty, university education for all and countless varieties of hot sauce, what has capitalism ever done for us?
Instead, these puritanical crusaders turned their attention on society itself. Internet technology has enabled us to strip monsters like Harvey Weinstein of their veils of secrecy, and therefore, their power. This marvel of communication also allows the Neo-Marxist to conduct witch-hunts and purges at speeds old Joe Stalin could only have dreamed of.
Their zealotry has claimed the scalps of numerous journalists, actors and politicians who, in the main, have all fallen on their swords rather than run the gauntlet. These men may not be nice. These men might, in fact, be criminals- but that has never been a good idea for the mob to decide. **Rupert Myers, late of GQ, is a man who makes my skin crawl. **Not for his alleged behaviour towards women, which seems inept but not illegal, but for his hypocrisy.
Sire! The Virtue Beacon is lit!
To write such a diatribe against the rest of one’s gender, to elevate oneself to the status of Enlightened Nü-Male, and then to be accused thus:
“I was very clear about not being romantically or sexually interested in him, once the subject was raised. I suggested we be mates.
“He said ‘I’ve got enough mates, I’d rather fuck you’ and forced himself on me outside a pub in Fitzrovia.”
Well. I would be a liar if I did not feel a little schadenfreude. I am wrong to do so. A failed and clumsy pass at someone is not a criminal offence, but the puritanical left is treating it like one.
Saints protect you if you live in the United Kingdom, where not only will leftist society pillory you, so will the police. The Sunday Times revealed that the Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green possessed (legal) pornography on his computer. Why is this information pertinent to the public? Are we really so depraved that we must know the masturbatory habits of politicians? If so, why? In any case, the police released it to the press.
The minister has also been pilloried for allegedly touching a woman’s knee. As I predicted when I first published this piece on Medium.com on Nov. 6th, Green has been forced to resign, unable to continue in his career with sucha tarnished public image.
Let’s not ignore that corrupt, incompetent or sleazy politicians must fall. With such incredible levels of vice in politics in our nations, how is it that this non-issue is plastered across the papers?
You can thank Donald J. Trump.
The moralists have been on this crusade for some time, but it appears to have become particularly weaponised by the Left and the MSM since The President’s locker room talk. The scent of blood in the water to a shark is much like the scent of KISS records to a Bible Belt Baptist in 1978 or a whiff of scandal to the press. Egged on by an ideological leitmotif that demands purity at all times from all beings, no man should ever find himself alone with an unmarried woman again.
How we laughed at Vice-President Pence, what a dotard, refusing to sit with a female without his wife present to ensure propriety is maintained. Pence comes to this topic from an entirely different perspective. As a born again, evangelical boomer Catholic we might expect a conservative attitude. But from the sons and daughters of the hippies, the Gen-Xers, the Millennials? I thought this was supposed to be a post-morality, post-faith, post-conservative post-everything age of rampant consumerism and meaningless sex?
No eye contact, a burka, and no sex. Ah, just like back in Gender Studies 101.
Instead, Netflix TV shows are used as examples of a religious theocracy that doesn’t exist. Wow, the asinine Twitterati bleat in unison, this is just like Trump’s America.
It is not. A totalitarian mindset exists in America, for sure. I must also state that the genuinely corrupt who are toppled, the true-life sex-criminals and paedophiles and rapists and money-launderers- spare them no sympathy. They are reaping their own whirlwind, caught up in their pretence at righteousness. The sole irony is that the totalitarians are those who are now purging their movements of male feminist allies for thought crime. Journalists who stood for identity politics are now the victims of the same.
I wonder how long it will be before Dan ‘Everyone is A Literal Nazi’ Arel is cast down from his perch. In the current climate, could it be that his social media stalking of pop has-been Lily Allen transgresses the invisible line of sin?
Dan, stop. That’s creepy.
I knew a guy like this once. A girl turned him down and he cried for days.
No doubt a self proclaimed anarchist like Arel already prays to Black Atheist Trans Jesus for forgiveness for his disgusting white penis. It is not enough today, in 2017, the current year, to merely hate yourself for being a white man. You must also hate the words you say, constantly self-reflect, ensure you keep your eyes down and touch nobody, not even in jest or error.
Such behavioural abnormality is non-PC. Such behaviour demands that you be flayed in public, to lose your livelihood. This is how puritans project their power. Shame is how they maintain control. We have moved beyond expanding the definition of words so that one can be raped by eyesight or by flatulence. We are now in an era where all actions are sinful. There is no escaping the shame. You are born in it, surrounded by it, you are the sin itself. It is, dare I say it, original in nature.
Submission looks like this. A dog, with it’s legs in the air and throat bared.
Considering so many of these leftists proclaim themselves anarchists but act like dictators, I offer my own favoured anarchy.
“Anarchy is personal; it is not a collective possibility. It rests upon the idea of a person acting within a sphere where his existence is not intrusive upon the existence of another human being unless invited to be so. Should a person find that he has uninvitedly trespassed upon the serenity of another, Individual Anarchy points that man toward accepting the responsibility for his own actions while not condemning the failure of others to own up to the things they may have done wrong.” ~ U. Buster
By this perspective, the moral crusade is anathema to anarchists. Even old Antonio Gramsci, one of the founders of Neo-Marxist thought, held it to be a fact that
To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.
If we can agree with a long-dead communist that the truth is revolutionary, there may yet be hope for us. We must turn away from this cult of social purity, and the trappings of transcendental shaming. The internet never forgets. We’re all stuck on this rock together, forever.
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Titanic 20th Anniversary: Artworks Lost and Found at Sea
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big screen, shattering box office records. It is one of those quintessentially ‘90s films that reminds an entire generation of being a certain age at a certain time in a certain place, particularly resonating with young people for its Romeo and Juliet get wet theme. The two intervening decades are enough to make us kids who came of age back then feel like old Rose.
Like its contemporary pop-culture opus, Clueless, which featured a work by Claes Oldenburg and coined the phrases “Botticelli chick” and “full-on Monet,” Titanic is liberally peppered with high-brow (albeit obvious) art history references. Rose’s first act upon boarding the ill-fated liner is to decorate her stateroom with what Cal calls her “finger paintings,” a collection of works by Monet, Degas, Cezanne, and “something Picasso.” Cal densely critiques, “Something Picasso...he won’t amount to a thing...at least they were cheap.”
Kate Winslet as Rose inspecting her “something” Picasso, based on Les Demoiselles d’Avignon that Picasso had finished five years before the Titanic sank.
Jack later admires her taste in art before adding his own contribution, the iconic nude sketch of Rose wearing the Heart of the Ocean.
The priceless masterpieces ultimately drift beneath the surface as the stateroom floods (by far the most tear-jerking scene for art nerds), and fortune hunters recover and restore Jack’s risque drawing almost a century after as the pivotal clue to the whereabouts of the diamond. Of course, art historians dispute that works by those artists went down on the Titanic, and a drawing on paper surviving 84 years under miles of ocean may seem a bit far fetched.
Even so, here are some true cases of artworks lost and/or found at sea which prove that there was more than a kernel of plausibility to James Cameron's epic.
Titanic: The Real Story
Copy of La Circassienne au Bain by John Parker, after an original by Merry-Joseph Blondel (left). Hecuba and Polyxena by Merry-Joseph Blondel, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (right), giving some idea of what the original might have looked like stylistically.
The fictional plot points of sunken masterpieces, a nude artwork, and an insurance claim on an outrageously expensive diamond lost aboard the Titanic have echoes of the real-life story of La Circassienne au Bain. The enormous neoclassical painting of a nude beauty debuted at the Louvre in 1814 to limited fanfare, but grew in reputation and popularity over time. Tragically, the work went down on the Titanic while in the possession of Swedish businessman Mauritz Hakan Björnström-Steffanson. Steffansson, who survived the disaster, filed a compensation claim for over two million dollars in today’s money. Thus, the painting was the most valuable item lost in the sinking, analogous to the famous “Heart of the Ocean” in the film.
HMS Colossus
Sir William Hamilton by George Romney, at the National Gallery of Art Washington DC (left). Lady Hamilton as Bacchante by Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, at the Lady Lever Art Gallery (right).
Sir William Hamilton is known for his diplomatic service on the eve of the Napoleonic Wars and his scandalous open marriage with Lady Emma Hamilton. Emma was a famous beauty and artistic muse who inspired the likes of Vigee Le Brun, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Angelika Kauffmann, and George Romney. She also just happened to be the mistress of Britain’s greatest hero, Admiral Horatio Nelson, himself a married man.
Sir William’s scandalous personal life overshadows his artistic contributions. While British Ambassador to Naples on the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, he accumulated a plethora of artistic treasures and antiquities, contributing immeasurably to the collections of such venerable institutions as the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Unfortunately, part of his priceless collection of classical Greek vases went down aboard the HMS Colossus en route from Naples to Britain in 1798. However, salvage diver Roland Morris discovered the wreck in 1974, including shards of the broken vases. After nearly 200 years in darkness on the ocean floor, the reconstructed vases now sit proudly in the British museum for all to see.
Vase reconstructed of fragments recovered from the Colossus, at the British Museum (left). Replica of the Portland Vase from Sir William’s collection, at the Victoria and Albert Museum (right), hinting at the original splendour of the vases damaged in the wreck.
Vrouw Maria
Illustration of the Vrouw Maria before her sinking (left). Catherine II by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder, at the Museum of Art History Vienna (right).
In 1771, the Vrouw Maria set sail from Amsterdam to Saint Petersburg laden with masterpieces by a who’s who of the Dutch Golden Age, including Paulus Potter, Gerard ter Borch, Cornelis Coedyk, Gabriel Metsu, Gerard Dou, and Philip Wouwerman. Especially notable among the works were Potter’s Large Herd of Oxen and Borch’s Woman at her Toilette. The paintings were personal possessions of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, bound for her newly founded State Hermitage Museum, but the ship went down in a storm off of Finland.
The Young Bull by Potter, at the Mauritshuis (left), probably in the style of Large Herd of Oxen. Surviving version of Lady at her Toilette by ter Borch, at the Detroit Institute of Arts (left), probably similar in composition to the lost version.
Yet, the story doesn’t end there. When the wreck was discovered in 1999, the cargo hold was intact and undisturbed, meaning that the contents must still be inside. The cold temperatures and low salinity of the Baltic Sea are ideal for the preservation of soft, organic materials such as canvas and wood. Furthermore, the works were sealed in wax for shipping, so if water hadn’t penetrated the seal, the paintings may very well survive in near-pristine condition after two and a half centuries. Hopes to salvage the paintings have thus far come to nothing, but recovery efforts continue, led by the Finnish National Board of Antiquities.
SS Normandie
History of Navigation by Jean Dupas, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The French government subsidized the lavish design and construction of the SS Normandie, even as millions starved in the Great Depression and the spectre of World War II loomed on the horizon. She dwarfed all earlier liners (including the Titanic) in size, speed, luxury, and elegant aesthetics, winning an unofficial reputation as the most beautiful liner ever built. This was due in large part to Jean Dupas’ breathtaking Art Deco murals that adorned the first class salon. In fact, the Normandie’s sleek interiors were so influential that “ocean liner style” was synonymous with Art Deco throughout the 1930s. Fittingly for a ship described as a “temple of beauty,” the Normandie played host to the world’s rich and famous during the golden age of travel, including art world celebrities like Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dali.
Photographs of Kahlo and Dali taken aboard the SS Normandie at the height of her glamour.
When France fell to the Nazis in 1939, the US commandeered the Normandie to serve as a troopship, and stripped her of most her decorative fixtures and (ill-advisedly) her fire containment system. Consequently, the ship caught fire in 1942 and capsized in the Hudson River, thankfully sans Dupas’ murals. The section in the Met (top) is the only full corner surviving intact, giving a taunting glimpse of the overall effect.
Demise of the SS Normandie in New York Harbor, 1942. Fun fact! Alfred Hitchcock used the shipwreck in the filming of his wartime thriller, Saboteur.
Dress from the Deep
Dress circa early 17th Century, at the Kaap Skil Museum, Netherlands.
In 2015, divers off the coast of the Netherlands discovered this 17th-Century silken gown, kept incredibly well-preserved under the protective sand for nearly 400 years. The odyssey of this dress and the woman who wore it unfolded in a swashbuckling tale fit for a James Cameron blockbuster in and of itself. In 1642, Queen Henrietta Maria of England’s retinue set sail for the Netherlands with the purported purpose of escorting her daughter to be a royal bride, but actually on a top-secret mission to hock the crown jewels to raise funds for the English Civil war. Entrusted with this mission was the Queen’s lady-in-waiting, Jean Kerr, Countess of Roxburghe. Jean was an adept spy who had previously funneled communications to the King of Spain in the service of her former mistress, Anne of Denmark. The voyage went sour when part of the royal fleet sank in a storm.
Jean Kerr, Countess of Roxburghe by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, in a private collection (left). Princess Henrietta Maria of France, Queen Consort of England by Anthony van Dyck, at the San Diego Museum of Art (right), wearing clothing of the period.
Historians might never have drawn the connection between Jean Kerr and this dress, had not a 1642 letter resurfaced referring to the Queen’s ladies losing their wardrobe at sea. Additionally, a book discovered alongside the garment is embossed with the coat of arms of King Charles I, husband of Henrietta Maria. Researchers singled out Jean Kerr among the royal entourage, since the dress matched her measurements and the style she favored. No doubt, this miraculous rediscovery gives hope to the millions of fangirls hoping to get their hands on some of Rose’s bomb-ass wardrobe in Titanic.
Thus, our story comes to a close with the same moral lesson as Titanic: It’s never too late to get back your long-lost bling...
...or your long-lost art.
By Griff Stecyk
#pop culture#history#titanic#leonardo dicaprio#kate winslet#art in film#movies#fun stuff#lost treasures#lost art#art#art history#art museums#20th anniversary#anniversary#sunken treasure
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Exhibitions, events and things to do in Paris this week
Our selection of some interesting things to do, see and experience in Paris this week and over the weekend.
Activities & Things to do
Journées européennes du patrimoine – 2017
At Paris, Paris,
From September 16, 2017 to September 17, 2017
As part of the 34th edition of the European Heritage Days to be held on September 16 and 17, 2017, more than 17,000 monuments and sites will open their doors to the public with an aim to encourage public participation in heritage conservation and interpretation. Museums, galleries, historic archives, heritage sites, libraries, hospitals, workshops and many other places will organise over 26,000 events and activities all over France. To find the venues participating in Journées européennes du patrimoine 2017 (European Heritage Days) and discover events around you, visit www.journeesdupatrimoine.fr.
Design
Christian Dior: Couturier du rêve (Designer of dreams)
At Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107 rue de Rivoli, Paris
From July 5, 2017 to January 7, 2018
Check out the lavish Christian Dior exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the creation of the House of Dior, this stunning exhibition follows the illustrious universe of the House of Dior’s founder and the designers who succeeded him: Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons and, more recently, Maria Grazia Chiuri.
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Art
Inextricabilia: Magical Mesh
At La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, 10 boulevard de la Bastille, Paris
From June 23, 2017 to September 17, 2017
La maison rouge’s exhibition Inextricabilia gathers works from art brut, African ritual objects, religious art, folk art, modern and contemporary art, all of which are inextricably linked to the symbol of the knot. At first glance, there is nothing that connects an Art Brut sculpture by Judith Scott with a Nkisi divination statue from Congo, a 18th-century German reliquary or Annette Messager’s net of photographs, and yet despite their origins in different lands, cultures and eras, there are surprising overlaps in the materials and techniques used, and in the process behind their creation. All these objects display striking analogies in the entwining, entangling and knotting of hemp cord, hair, strips of leather, gold threads, blades of grass, raffia, rope and fabric. Whether organic, plant or metal, these fibres are ingeniously assembled, stitched, woven or knotted together into inextricable meshes that are also highly symbolic objects.
These resemblances go beyond form and technique: each piece is instilled with healing, purifying or protective powers that will drive away evil, endowing them with a spiritual, religious or magical role. The exhibition Inextricabilia attempts to untangle these knots that give form to the sentient, the incommunicable and the elusive.
The body of work exhibited includes objects and artworks by Arthur Bispo do Rosario, Pierrette Bloch, Cathryn Boch, Louise Bourgeois, Peter Buggenhout, Antonio Dalla Valle, Heide de Bruyne, Erik Dietman, Teresa Ottallo, Lisette H., Sheela Gowda, Jules Leclercq, Marie Lieb, Jean Loubressanes, Man Ray, Annette Messager, Marc Moret, Michel Nedjar, Virginie Rebetez, Borbála Remmer, Judith Scott, Pascal Tassini, Jeanne Tripier, Giuseppe Versino, Chen Zhen, and numerous anonymous creators from public and private collections across Europe, California and Brasil.
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Turbulences in the Balkans
At Halle Saint Pierre, 2 rue Ronsard, Paris
From September 7, 2017 to July 31, 2018
Halle Saint Pierre, situated in Montmartre, Paris, is one of the most important museums in Europe to represent art brut, outsider art and art singulier. From September 7, 2017 through July 31, 2018, the Halle Saint Pierre presents a major exhibition titled Turbulences dans les Balkans (Turbulences in the Balkans). The exhibition has been produced in collaboration with Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art, Serbia and presents works by 25 Serbian artists. With a selection of over 150 works – paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages, installations – the exhibition explores the rich, diverse and complex alternative art practices – visionary, art brut and outsider art creators from the Balkans – that go beyond the mainstream.
The artists presented include Sava Sekulić, Ilija Bosilj Bašičević, Vojislav Jakić, Barbarien, Matija Staničić, Milan Stanisavljević, Ljubiša Jovanović –Kene, Joškin Šiljan, Vojkan Morar, Igor Simonović, Ivana Stanisavljević, Dragan Milivojević, Dragan Jovanović – Gagac, Arhivist, Boris Deheljan, Aleksandar Denić, Bojan Đorđević – Omča, Joca Geringer, Goran Stojčetović, Zoran Tanasić, Budimir Pejak Pejaković, Nenad Džoni Racković, Dragan Radović („Magični čiča“), Danijel Savović and Emir Šehanović.
Art
Caro/Jeunet
At Halle Saint Pierre, 2 rue Ronsard, Paris
From September 7, 2017 to July 30, 2018
The exhibition Caro/Jeunet at Halle Saint Pierre, Paris is an invitation to the unique world of filmmakers Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. On view from September 7, 2017 through July 30, 2018, the exhibition explores the cinematic world of these two creators, through a selection of film extracts, objects, costumes and other documents, along with the drawings and paintings of Marc Caro and the artworks made or collected by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Photography
Ed van der Elsken: Camera in Love
At Jeu de Paume, 1, place de la Concorde, Paris
From June 13, 2017 to September 24, 2017
Jeu de Paume, Paris presents a comprehensive exhibition of work by Dutch post-war photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken (1950-1990). The exhibition was earlier on show at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and will travel to Fundació Mapfre, Madrid in 2018. The retrospective features a large selection of Ed van der Elsken’s varied work in film, photography and slideshows, including his iconic images of the bohemian youth in Paris from the fifties, his photographic and cinematic documentation of everyday life in the streets of Amsterdam and Tokyo from 1960-onwards, photographs from his travels in Africa as well as his books, excerpts from his films and slide shows, particularly Eye Love You and posthumously completed Tokyo Symphony.
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Art
Kiefer-Rodin
At Musée Rodin, 77 rue de Varenne, Paris
From March 14, 2017 to October 22, 2017
Musée Rodin’s exhibition Kiefer-Rodin (on view until October 22, 2017) is one of the major events organised in France to commemorate the death centenary of sculptor Auguste Rodin. This stunning show is the result of painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer’s exploration of Rodin’s creative process, particularly his book Les Cathédrales de France (The Cathedrals of France) published in 1914 and his manner of fragmenting, reconsidering and reusing his work. The exhibition features three monumental canvases (The Cathedrals of France) with layers of oil, acrylic, emulsion and shellac piled up on them and sheets of lead (one of the artist’s preferred materials to work with) that you could stare at for hours. There are also his glass vitrines, where he combined relics of his own life with different objects and materials, crude and beautiful at the same time. Then, there are Kiefer’s books, almost sculptures, with free-flowing female nudes on stacks of cardboard.
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Medusa: Jewellery and Taboos (Bijoux et tabous)
At Musée d'art moderne, 11 avenue du Président Wilson, Paris
From May 19, 2017 to November 5, 2017
The Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris (Museum of Modern Art, Paris) presents an extensive and beautiful exhibition titled Medusa: Bijoux et tabous (Medusa: Jewellery and Taboos) examining the cultural significance of jewellery in various societies throughout history. Whether designed by artists or high-end brands such as Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, or as symbols of ethnic identity, an allusion to fantasy or as simple pieces of jewellery, the exhibition brings together over 400 bracelets, neckpieces, rings and other improbable creations to show how a piece of jewellery can trigger attraction or repulsion depending on what it is made of or how it is worn. Through the ages, jewellery has been used to express and fortify identities, values, body and sexuality. The pieces exhibited are at times strange, at times dazzling, and at times both. With an excellent scenography, the exhibits include works by celebrated artists (Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Alexander Calder and Niki de Saint Phalles), high-end brands and smaller, unknown or anonymous creators. The exhibition comes in partnership with the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts, which has loaned the iconic crystal glove worn by Michael Jackson during the Victory Tour and the neck clock worn by hip hop group Public Enemy’s Flavour Flav.
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George Segal
At Galerie Daniel Templon, 30 rue Beaubourg, Paris
From September 9, 2017 to October 28, 2017
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris will offer visitors an opportunity to rediscover the work of George Segal (1924-2000). Perhaps the most existentialist of pop artists, George Segal is known for creating environments populated by disturbing plaster figures.
Born in 1924 in New York, George Segal lived and worked in New Jersey, USA, until his death in 2000. Discovered at a collective pop art exhibition in 1962, Segal’s sculptures have since achieved international recognition for their ability to transform everyday realities into a theatre of mysterious and poetic apparitions. Among his numerous solo exhibitions were major retrospectives in 1978 at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA, in 1997 at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (Canada), in 1998 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C; in 2002 at Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomia, Japan and at the Hermitage State Museum in St Petersburg (Russia). Galerie Templon presented George Segal’s works for the first time in 1979 in Paris, as part of the group exhibition ‘La peinture américaine‘.
George Segal’s works play on the permeability of spaces, inviting the viewer to converse with his anonymous and motionless figures. Segal flips the hierarchies: the objects are as real and permanent as nature itself, whereas the human figures are made by hand out of one of the most fragile materials: plaster.
In the 1960s, George Segal developed a layered plaster bandage moulding technique by applying the bandages directly to the model’s body. He used this technique to reveal the evocative power of gesture and its poetic, social, erotic and political dimensions. The bandage, an instrument of healing, thus becomes a metaphor for the fragility of life, underlining a need for transcendence below the body’s empty shell.
Galerie Templon’s retrospective is the first in France in 20 years and features a comprehensive selection of the American artist’s works. Originally a realist (The Dancers, The Couple), George Segal’s works began to evolve in the 1970s, turning towards a more expansive and freer style of expression. The coloured works of the 1980s, both figurative paintings and still lives (Nude on Red Chair, Girl on Wicker Lounge), enter into a dialogue with the history of art and master painters like Cézanne and Degas. By isolating and highlighting fragments of body parts, the opulent bas-reliefs and series of erotic paintings (Hand Fragments) refer in particular to the women washing and dressing motif. In the 1990s, the artist shifted his focus to expressionist naturalism. The dual plastering/moulding technique offers greater detail on the surface (42nd Street Deli, Bus Passengers), while the fusion of sculpture and painting brings to life a plethora of artistic expressions via colour, light and emotions. The darker works (Woman Standing in Doorway, Woman Lying on a Bed) operate as a negative presence – like the inside of a mould or incarnation of a shadow.
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Raymond Depardon: Traverser
At Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2, impasse Lebouis, Paris
From September 13, 2017 to December 17, 2017
The exhibition Raymond Depardon: Traverser at the Fondation Henri-Cartier Bresson presents the works of photographer, writer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon. With a selection of over 100 prints, texts, films and documents, the exhibition hinges on four main themes: La terre natale (Homeland), Le Voyage (Journey), La Douleur (Pain) and L’enfermement (Confinement). Depardon’s writings run as a symbolic Ariadne’s thread throughout the exhibition, creating a constant dialogue between Depardon’s work over the last sixty years starting from his early beginnings at Le Garet Farm.
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Derain, Balthus, Giacometti: A friendship in art
At Musée d'art moderne, 11 avenue du Président Wilson, Paris
From June 2, 2017 to October 29, 2017
The Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris brings together the works of three major artists of the 20th century – André Derain, Balthus and Alberto Giacometti – for an excellent exhibition, ‘Derain, Balthus, Giacometti: A friendship in art‘. The show features more than 200 works by the three artists, connected to each other by a solid friendship that was born in 1933 in Paris. The exhibition presents an original way of looking at the works of these three men, whose paintings, sculptures, maquettes and drawings seem to bear witness to a long-standing mutual admiration.
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Niki de Saint Phalle: Niki de Saint Phalle's Women
At Galerie George-Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois, 36, rue de Seine, Paris
From September 8, 2017 to October 22, 2017
A new monographic exhibition at Parisian art gallery Galerie Georges-Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois focuses on one of the central themes in artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s work – the representation of the female body. The exhibition features a selection of twenty pieces from the period 1960s and 1970s, including her iconic Nanas (a series of life-sized papier maché dolls representing the ‘everywoman’) as well as her singular relief sculptures.
Niki de Saint Phalle is known for her monumental sculptures of voluptuous female bodies. Her women are big, muscular, old, fragile, with bellies ripped open, dancing light giants, matrons, brides, women giving birth. For Saint Phalle, dealing with the feminine, showing its anxieties and its revolts, its dreams, its power and its poetry, always meant showing women’s bodies. Everything women may go through is embodied in her figures which challenge the idealised representation of women’s bodies as also the rigid patriarchal notions of women’s role in society.
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Hyperallergic: Let’s Use the Art Strike to Hold Cultural Institutions Accountable
San Bruno, California, June 16, 1942. “An art school wall has been established in this Assembly center with large enrollment and a well trained, experienced Japanese staff under the leadership of Professor Chiura Obata of the University of California. This photograph shows a student in Still Life class painting a free water color.” Photo by Dorothea Lange for War Relocation Authority (image courtesy National Archives, identifier 537945)
The twists and turns of the 2016 US presidential election reverberated around the globe, so that, sitting with friends in Shinjuku this past autumn, we had much to discuss. Donald Trump provided particular fodder. In the course of campaigning, he commented that he might have supported the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II; stated that if the US were attacked, the Japanese could “sit home and watch Sony television”; and expressed support for nuclear proliferation in East Asia. However, it was his proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the US or create a registry system based on faith or ethnicity that brought chilling echoes of a suppressed chapter of US history: Japanese American internment.
“Hillary will win, right? It’s just a matter of by how much?” my friend asked. “I don’t know,” I replied. “America is a very racist country.”
Saying so was less an attempt at prediction than an effort to discourage complacency. However, coming to understand the whitelash of November 8, 2016 requires not only an analysis of demographic data, but also an acknowledgement of the election as a violent response to racial justice and expanding democratic rights. Periods of increased abuse, terror, and incarceration throughout American history highlight the ways in which white supremacy marks and encircles, controls and contains people of color through structural racism in uneven and complex ways. Memorialization of these periods in limited physical sites often serves to cut us off from the reality in which they operated: for example, the system of Japanese American internment included not only camps, but also assembly centers, prisons, INS facilities, and army sites. And current threats of a Muslim registry follow in the footsteps of the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or NSEERS, which was implemented by the Bush administration in 2002 and dismantled by President Obama only last month. As we seek to protect valuable institutions from the threats of racism, sexism, xenophobia, and authoritarianism that make up Trumpism, we cannot ignore the fact that these same institutions already navigate and survive within a system of racial oppression and capitalism.
This is no less true for the institutions dedicated to arts and culture that we often hold up as antithetical to such threats. The Saint Louis Art Museum arranged for a loan of George Caleb Bingham’s painting “Verdict of the People” (1854–55) to Trump’s inaugural luncheon, prompting a petition that requested it be cancelled. Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs employee as well as the incoming administration’s Treasury Secretary, departed the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, amid protests. And, last summer, when Japan Society’s chairman, Wilbur Ross, Jr. became a public supporter and active fundraiser for the Trump presidential campaign, it raised a host of questions for the community the organization serves.
Alien identification certificate, 1942 (image courtesy the Kondo Family Collection, via the Densho Digital Repository)
As a former employee of Japan Society who continues to work with the organization as an independent film festival programmer, and as someone who believes in its mission of cultural exchange and integrity of its staff, I was deeply concerned, though I should have done more to voice my fears at the time. Election day came and went, and while tireless activists such as George Takei spoke out in solidarity with Muslims, and peer organizations such as the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles strongly condemned Trump’s dangerous comments, Japan Society remained conspicuously silent, despite complaints from members and constituents. As the transition process began, Ross was rumored to be the pick for Trump’s Commerce Secretary. Meanwhile, campaign surrogates reiterated that the incoming administration would seek to enact some of its most offensive proposals, arguing that the WWII internment of Japanese Americans would serve as “precedent” for a mass registration of Muslims. While legal experts, including the ACLU’s Carl Takei, have argued that this position has no standing, the threat remains deeply disturbing.
In late November, the organization released a holiday statement which did not mention the internment, registry, or deportations by name, nor any politicians or potential cabinet members. Instead, it offered platitudes of being “nonpolitical,” accommodating “multiple points of view,” allowing “freedom of expression,” and “values of diversity and respect.” In fact, it seemed to swell with excitement over its “unique position to engage insiders and outsiders during this historic time of change.” In response, I emailed Japan Society’s president, Motoatsu Sakurai, urging him and the rest of the organization to take an explicit stand — not against any political figure, but against hate, racism, and authoritarianism. To date, I have not received a response.
Japan itself has undergone a slide to the right in recent years, with the second government of Shinzo Abe instituting increasingly authoritarian policies, moving to dismantle the country’s pacifist constitution, clamping down on freedom of the press, normalizing WWII-era nationalism, and, in collaboration with the US military, continuing the persecution of indigenous Okinawans. In fact, while Trump outwardly campaigned against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which Abe strongly supports with Obama, an affinity between the two nations becomes clear when looking at Japan’s own surveillance program targeting Muslims. An organization such as Japan Society, invested in cultural as well as business and policy exchange between the US and Japan, finds itself in a difficult and complicated situation, caught between two countries’ dangerously regressive politics; however, that only underscores the need for the institution to recommit to equality and justice while pursuing its mission.
San Francisco, California, April 4, 1942. “Civilian Exclusion Order Number 5, ordering evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry, posted in a vacant store window on Grant Avenue in Chinatown. This establishment, like many others in Chinatown, was operated by proprietors of Japanese descent. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.” Photo by Dorothea Lange for Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority (image courtesy National Archives, identifier 536452)
In the months following 9/11, Japan Society organized a meaningful public dialogue titled “Racial Tolerance in Times of Crisis: The Japanese American & Arab American Experiences,” focusing on shared experiences of xenophobia and racism between the two communities. We are now in a time when hate crimes against Muslims have reached their highest numbers since the post-9/11 years; the need for similar initiatives that assert seemingly discreet groups’ shared contingency and political determination is urgent. Cultural institutions such as Japan Society should help lead the way. Now is the time to be radically inclusive in engaging people in resistance to Trumpism and forming greater solidarity. Diversity alone is not enough, however, as we’ve seen that representation is not incompatible with racist violence. Instead, we must aim for equity that provides access to power and works against marginalization, while remembering the legacy of historical traumas such as the internment to prevent their repetition. When one group is threatened, others must defend them, bearing in mind our unique histories and shared future.
During this long US presidential election, and indeed throughout the years of discrimination and violence that preceded it, the values of equality and free expression that many cultural institutions ostensibly stand for were threatened and brought up for debate. For institutions historically serving Latinx, Muslim, black, LGBTQ, Asian American, and other marginalized groups, this past year has only amplified the need to reiterate their commitment to those values and provide space for communities to come together. In solidarity with calls for a general strike protesting the inauguration of Trump as the 45th president of the United States, a coalition of artists and critics last month issued an invitation to cultural institutions to participate in an “art strike,” an interruption of business as usual on January 20, 2017, and beyond. Heeding such a call could not only reinvigorate art spaces that struggle in their commitment to the values they purport to defend and the communities they claim to serve, but also pose an opportunity to imagine another world of common political determination.
While participation in and reactions to the J20 Art Strike are taking different forms, from going dark to opening doors for free with social justice programming, the action invites us to commit to a longer-term goal of challenging our institutions to resist Trumpism and to combat the conditions that allowed its emergence. Don’t be afraid to take charge and foster a culture of self-reflection; be radically inclusive in your organization and help build a more fertile space of coalition building.
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