David Lew, aka Shark Toof, created a piece for the Chinese American Museum in 2018. “Eighty-eight empty canvas sacks were adorned with hand-applied gold leaf paint and suspended on burlap twine with wooden clothespins. It was meant to evoke the history of Chinese immigrants in the laundry business.” Maintenance workers took them down and threw them away. – Los Angeles Times
Tag: 12.07.20
A Dutch Investigation Finds That Its Art Restitution Panel Sides Too Often With Museums
Not only does the panel side with the already powerful institutions too much, the investigators found, but there’s little empathy for the victims of Nazis. “The findings were provocative enough that two of the panel’s seven members, including its chairman, immediately resigned.” – The New York Times