“It’s just the same attitude as pulling down confederate statutes. Right out of 1984; re-write or delete history.”
The big joke during the Cold War was that the Soviets, always broke, never failed to find the money to recall and rewrite their history books every few years because of shifts in the prevailing political winds. I assure you that no one over 50 would even recognize a modern US history school textbook.
America: Our Changing Past.
1984 came late, but it came with a vengenace.
the 1968 radicals in America never stopped.
They pushed this crap in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and still in the 2010s.
There was push back in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and started waning in the 2000s.
Academia, institutions of history (art, science, and history), and media are overrun by this group think.
Kaywin Feldman Becomes the First Woman to Direct the National Gallery of Art (social justice in DC)artnet ^ | December 11, 2018 | Eileen Kinsell
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Feldman will have to contend with the politics of leading an institution in DC that is largely federally funded. In an essay for Apollo magazine published earlier this year, she wrote: “Art museums are intensely political organizations—political with a small ‘p’. Art is political because it is an expression of lived human experience; identity, love, sex, religion, death, home, happiness, and trauma have always been subjects for artists. A concerned trustee at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where I am the director, recently asked me if we would ever be the focus of protest. I assured him that we would, and urged him to walk around the galleries if he wanted to find offense. We have it all on our walls: imperialism, colonialism, war, oppression, discrimination, slavery, misogyny, rape, and more.”
In a statement provided by the NGA, Feldman said the museum is “arguably America’s greatest treasure. To be chosen to lead it into its next decades is a profound honor. As I prepare to take on the responsibility for this magnificent institution, I want to express my gratitude to the trustees for putting their faith in me, and to Rusty Powell for the example of his years of enlightened stewardship. I am eager to work with the talented team at the Gallery in taking the institution to even greater heights.”