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‘The US crisis around ICE evokes the one sparked by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850’

‘The US crisis around ICE evokes the one sparked by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850’

Published by Sam Flores

Footage of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers forcefully detaining undocumented immigrants on the streets or at workplaces – particularly in states that oppose such methods – and the determined resistance of protesters intent on defending those targeted, evoke another major crisis in American democracy: the one triggered by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. So too does the heart-wrenching fate of immigrants who have built their lives in the United States, only to be deported to countries they left decades earlier, often facing family separation. The intention here is not to equate the plight of today’s undocumented immigrants with that of 19th-century fugitive slaves. Their legal status and the history of their presence in the US are distinct. Rather, the goal is to highlight the similarities between their experiences and to point out the resemblances between two defining crises in American democracy: the current crisis roiling the country and the one that set the stage for the Civil War in 1861. This comparison sheds light on the paradoxical role of the federal government, …

Athina Onassis’s Return to Couture Evokes Jackie’s Elegance

Athina Onassis’s Return to Couture Evokes Jackie’s Elegance

Published by Sam Flores

Jackie and Athina are said to have never met. A great style icon of the twentieth century, Jackie married her second husband in 1968. When Aristotle died in 1975, he left his daughter Christina as his only heir, after his son Alexander died in a 1973 plane crash. When Christina died in 1988, Athina, her then-three-year-old girl, grew up with her father’s family, far from the flashes and from Greece, the country of the Onassis family. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Aristotle Onassis in 1970. Tom Wargacki She has sought to preserve that distance. A lover of horses, it has always been easier to see Onassis at a competition or in the saddle. To see her in the front row again, one must go back to a 2015 Giorgio Armani show. Álvaro de Miranda Neto, Athina Onassis, and Giorgio Armani in 2015. Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images Source link

Minnie Evans’s Legacy Evokes Thorny Power Dynamics

Minnie Evans’s Legacy Evokes Thorny Power Dynamics

Published by Jenni Sidey

In Atlanta, the desire for critical art writing has spurred many heated debates on the question of responsibility. Whose responsibility is it to write critically about the arts in the Southeast? Which writers have the knowledge and care to write well-informed cultural analyses and critiques without regional prejudice—and, more candidly, without gender or racial prejudice? These debates have become more impassioned since Art Papers, an international art magazine based in Atlanta, announced that the organization will sunset in 2026 after 50 years, leaving the region without its oldest and arguably most critical voice for the arts. Related Articles I was hosting a small gathering of local art workers at my home when this debate made its way into conversation, as did the forthcoming retrospective of the late self-taught artist Minnie Evans (1892–1987), organized by the city’s High Museum of Art and set to travel to the Whitney. Transparently, I turned down the opportunity to review the exhibition due to conflict of interest: One of the curators, Katherine Jentleson, is a respected local colleague who has …