As discussed in Art Under And Out From Under Islam (Part I), MoMA has been eager to score political points against Trump’s ban by rather confusedly claiming that Western artists have learned so much from the “colonized” (and by implication, Islamic) peoples, and that the creations of Muslim artists put on display somehow prove how […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Art Under — And Out From Under — Islam (Part I)
This past February, Art News published an article about an exhibit at MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art) that it described as an “Elegant Riposte to Trump’s Travel Order.” Here’s that “Elegant Riposte”: Less than a week after President Trump signed an executive order banning citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States, the Museum […]