"Objectionable"

 

Rigoberto Gonzalez. 2020.

Read the full article on NPR. The 2020 painting above was a competition finalist for the National Portrait Gallery. This piece reminds me of the 2019 Phillips Collection exhibition called The Warmth of Other Suns, which raised still timely questions about migration and global displacement.

Artist unknown. The Phillips Collection. 15 Sept 2019.

I'll also highlight this 2018 piece by LA artist Patrick Martinez from the Beyond the Streets exhibition.

Photo by Patrick Jones. Art by Patrick Martinez. 19 May 2018.

This type of attack on art happened in 1937 Germany. History comes back around.