Racist sentiments often coexist with a mythologized past of a pure America inhabited only by white Christian people.
Author Archives: Lenore Metrick-Chen
Lenore Metrick-Chen is an art and cultural historian and curator at Drake University. She explores visual art’s agency in social change, in issues of race, feminism, and contested public space. Her book 'Collecting Objects and Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and 19th C American Visual Culture' (SUNY Press, 2012) speaks of the effect of the United States Exclusion laws on perceptions of Chinese people and Chinese objects in 19th-century US. Her edited volume 'Creating Cultural Memory: Architecture, Monuments and Other Ephemera' is upcoming from SUNY Press.
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Seeing with the Body at a Virtual-Reality Art Show
In the largely uncharted technology of virtual reality, artists must invent the medium as they engage with it.
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We’ve Always Been Here: A Portrait of the US by Two Black Artists
DES MOINES, Iowa — Divisions of race, class, and place haunt aspirations for equality and justice in the US.