"This year has been a difficult one for the arts in the United States, from federal funding cuts to the president's demands to censor or manipulate artistic content to fit his white supremacist narrative of history and reinforce ideals of American exceptionalism; from a call for the erasure of African-American history to attempts to slash federal funding to the Institute of American Indian Arts."
"In Los Angeles, photographs and videos of border patrol agents violently sequestering people are sadly becoming as quotidian as traffic. Consuming professional cruelty at the bureaucratic level is delivered every morning by the White House's media channels, while gruesome scenes of immigrants and their children being shot, sandwiched by moving vehicles, dragged while screaming, and even convulsing on the floor are normalized every day."
Federal funding cuts and presidential demands push censorship and manipulation of artistic content to fit a white supremacist narrative and reinforce American exceptionalism. Calls for erasing African-American history and attempts to slash funding to the Institute of American Indian Arts threaten cultural institutions. Mass deportations without due process and kidnappings by presumed border agents occur across the country, while federal forces intimidate state administrations through military presence on museum grounds. Photographs and videos of border patrol violence have become commonplace, and visual arts professionals absorb daily images of cruelty that shape their visual vernacular. Questions arise about curatorial political silence in the face of fascism.
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