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Picture, if you will, a homely and none too bombastic statue of Marx and Lenin, looming over one of the city's grayest public spaces. The men gaze deeply into each other's eyes, their image pathetic yet darkly erotic. Despite its quaint chumminess, the statue symbolizes state oppression and popular fear...
...night of November 9, 1989, things changed. The Wall fell, state socialism gasped its last breath, and the East German people rose up against that dreaded stone symbol of authority. Toppled by the will of the people, Marx and Lenin were consigned to the mass grave of statuary piling up in Eastern Europe since...
...that mass grave, Marx and Lenin would be rolling over if they only knew what was going on here in Harvard Square...
...then the great and glorious day will dawn when Cantabrigians all--every man, woman and child--will rise up under the mighty spell of the Peruvian pied pipers, topple this monstrosity and abandon it in the trashheap together with Marx, Lenin and The Shops at Harvard Yard...
...true. And yet how curious. For Rosenthal wrote and signed the Beijing catalog essay too. Well, hey, Karl Marx used to say that capitalist culture harbored contradictions. But it took this English curator to bring them to the point of total cognitive dissonance: preening himself as the voice of American avant-gardes on one side of the world, slagging them off as "detritus" on the other...