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...also disagreed with Sofen's assertion that the museum presented revisionist, upside-down "Alice in Wonderland" history. As proof of the museum's inaccuracies, Sofen points to a placard which claims the Emancipation Proclamation allowed Lincoln's in-laws in Kentucky to "legally keep their slaves...
...also disagreed with Sofen's assertion that the museum presented revisionist, upside-down "Alice in Wonderland" history. As proof of the museum's inaccuracies, Sofen points to a placard which claims the Emancipation Proclamation allowed Lincoln's in-laws in Kentucky to "legally keep their slaves...
...exhibits at the museum acknowledged the fact of slavery but implied that the institution was benign. One placard noted, "Masters provided housing, food, clothing and medical care for their slaves. Harsh treatment was rare, though cruelty did occur...
...than Morell's work, beguile the viewer. In "Toilets," a dye destruction print, 11 toilet bowls march across the back wall of something resembling a prison cell: the third bowl in the sequence lies dejectedly on its side, a single white beam illuminating its slightly skewed seat. The accompanying placard describes the photographer's intentions to use "art as a process of social dialogue," but the social dialogue of a fallen toilet bowl is rather unclear. Because Casebere's photos are mostly white, they seem like mere Braille against an ascetic backdrop, as though touching the prints would convey more...
...resident of north Cambridge, I was personally offended by that," said Madsen, a family therapist, who spent yesterday afternoon on a rainy street corner bearing a Wolf placard...