Good morning! 😎 Today, a reminder that Modernism didn't just happen in the US and Europe, disability
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Good morning! 😎 Today, a reminder that Modernism didn’t just happen in the US and Europe, disability rights activist Emily Ladau explains “supported storytelling,” and Michael Press says the British Museum isn’t doing enough to fight illegal antiquities trafficking
Also, this wild collage mashes up media images from Trump’s presidency into a Bosch-like scene. The artist, Chris Santa Maria, has been working on it since 2016.
– Elisa Wouk Almino, senior editor 
A Collage of Images from Trump's Presidency
Chris Santa Maria, “PRESIDENT TRUMP” (2016 – 2020), paper collage on canvas, 72 x 72 inches
Chris Santa Maria, “PRESIDENT TRUMP” (2016 – 2020), paper collage on canvas, 72 x 72 inches
At eye level, artist Chris Santa Maria’s six-foot-high collage “PRESIDENT TRUMP”, currently on view at Jim Kempner Fine Art, depicts a gargantuan figure hovering above a densely populated landscape.
However, a closer look reveals thousands of individual photographs meticulously cut out from newspapers, magazines and internet print-outs in the last four years. Every element has been culled from the unsettlingly familiar visual torrent of Trump’s presidency.
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The Museum of Islamic Art’s intended sale of 255 items, planned for Sotheby’s in London, is postponed to November.
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