My best friend and I were walking to our dinner reservation in Boston’s Little Italy one evening, when we stumbled upon 6 glass towers that appeared smoky and ominous. My first thought? “No, that can’t possibly be an interpretation of the Holocaust.” Sure enough, the plaque on the wall proved
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Monuments function to memorialize historical events or figures, encourage certain values, and shape collective identity. But what happens when physical representations of the past do not fully reflect truth? The term ‘memory politics’ encapsulates the process through which a society develops its collective understanding of historical events. Memory politics studies
Performance artist Santiago Sierra is known for controversial art pieces that address systems of power that operate in our everyday lives, whether we acknowledge it or not. These operations that Sierra uncovers are usually those that marginalize and/or exploit certain populations within our society. To showcase these systemic injustices, Sierra
Last year Urban Outfitters had the brilliant idea to take a horrible incident at Kent State University and profit off of it. They attempted to sell a Kent State sweater with blood splatter in reference to the shooting that occurred in 1970. They even had the audacity to name the