Return the Stolen Artifact, But Keep the Museum Label
about 3 months ago (02/05/2024)
Return the Stolen Artifact, But Keep the Museum Label Skip to content An empty pedestal of a seized looted artifact at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City (photo Erin L. Thompson/ Hyperallergic ) I’ve been thinking about absence since last spring, when I visited a patch of churned dirt at Health Sciences Park in Memphis, Tennessee. A monument to the notoriously cruel Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate cavalry commander and first “Grand Wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan, stood there until 2017. The walkways around this now-empty focal point bore fading Black Lives Matter slogans.