Happy MLK Day! ⛅ Today, decoding the symbols of white supremacy, a review of the Antibodies exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and the team behind @cancelartgalleries offers thoughts on what galleries should do.
—Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
How to Recognize Right-wing Symbols
A Gadsen flag flying above the crowd at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 (photo by TapTheForwardAssist, via Wikimedia Commons)
From Proud Boys and neo-Nazis to anti-government militias, a broad fascist coalition has consolidated around Trump’s claims of election fraud and deep-seated white fragility.
Fascism has no clear-cut definition, but it does have concrete symptoms: simultaneous claims of victory and victimhood, diligent beliefs in nativism, and what Umberto Eco called the “cult of tradition.”
Let’s be real: galleries are feudal systems for hoarding wealth, property, and people that cannot be reformed with momentary or incremental adjustments.
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