Posted on 11/07/2017 7:22:20 AM PST by simpson96
MIAMI A University of Miami assistant professor is provoking plenty of controversy and debate with an artwork that blends the Stars and Stripes with a KKK symbol and she says that was exactly the idea.
Three American flags sewn into Ku Klux Klan-style hoods stand in the window of a faculty art exhibit in Miami's historic Wynwood Art District. Visible from outside the gallery, they nabbed headlines even before the show opened Oct. 23.
And the titled "American Mask" piece by Billie Grace Lynn still stands in the window where it will remain until the exhibit's end on Nov. 12.
"It's a deliberately provocative piece," Lynn told CNN. "It's a proposal. I'm asking a question. There's no way to walk up to someone on the street and say, 'Do you think people are concealing their bigotry and racism behind the flag, behind being patriotic?' That's the question and that's what I find so disturbing."
The white stars and dark blue part of the flag form the cone of the mask. On the cone's tip, there's a golden eagle with open wings a flag's finial.
The bright red and white stripes form the lower part of the mask, hanging vertically with burned-out eyeholes. All three masks are secured upright on poles with bases shaped like Nazi swastikas.
The piece was prompted by this year's riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, Lynn said. Reactions to "American Mask" have fluctuated between misidentifying the piece as white supremacist art, understanding the intended message and expressing disgust at the desecration of the flag.
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I ope he’s now “An University of Miami assistant professor.”
What?! She doesn't have the courage to approach people on the street and ask them about the political ideologies of others, but she has absolutely no qualms about - indeed, is proud of - "creating" this kind of junk?
Regards,
Queer and obsessed with toys. And unstable employment moving from New Orleans, San Francisco and Miami in the past few years. Possibly to controversial and wears out her welcome which is surprising she left San Francisco.
Just a wild guess, DYKE?
looks comfortable, something captain America would wear around the avengers mansion.
In sum, If you pay people $50-100K year to talk on non-narrative media aspects of pansexual studies, you validate it as a useful career path. This didn't happen overnight, the leftist takeover of academia, fed by the massive spending and debt bubble feeding it, have been building for decades.
Just for kicks, I searched for her on the University of Miami website. She is in the Department of Art and Art History, and is listed as Billie Lynn, not as Billie Grace Lynn.
If you are a University of Miami grad, or if you have a child going there, you might want to drop her a line.
Wow. How clever. And what a powerful, daring statement.
Not.
Miss Hathaway's homelier, stay-at-home sister.
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Angry Dyke desecrates American Flag calls it art and is applauded by the left. This is news?
. . . questioning
I understand that her other works made from rainbow and Black Lives Matter flags were confiscated as hate speech.
Exactly.
Ask this moron if it is okay to be white.
“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks....”
OMG...
Mr. Bean’s Twin Sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In today's academia, you have to be a social misfit, freak, or malcontent, to even be hired. It goes without saying that you must also be a leftist.
Mad Max with cow udders on her head.
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