University of Miami
Office of the President
President Julio Frenk 305-284-5155 president@miami.edu
Rudy Fernandez Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications and Chief of Staff 305-284-4330 rudyfernandez@miami.edu
Posted on 11/07/2017 7:22:20 AM PST by simpson96
MIAMI — A University of Miami assistant professor is provoking plenty of controversy and debate with an artwork that blends the Stars and Stripes with a KKK symbol — and she says that was exactly the idea.
Three American flags sewn into Ku Klux Klan-style hoods stand in the window of a faculty art exhibit in Miami's historic Wynwood Art District. Visible from outside the gallery, they nabbed headlines even before the show opened Oct. 23.
And the titled "American Mask" piece by Billie Grace Lynn still stands in the window — where it will remain until the exhibit's end on Nov. 12.
"It's a deliberately provocative piece," Lynn told CNN. "It's a proposal. I'm asking a question. There's no way to walk up to someone on the street and say, 'Do you think people are concealing their bigotry and racism behind the flag, behind being patriotic?' That's the question and that's what I find so disturbing."
The white stars and dark blue part of the flag form the cone of the mask. On the cone's tip, there's a golden eagle with open wings — a flag's finial.
The bright red and white stripes form the lower part of the mask, hanging vertically with burned-out eyeholes. All three masks are secured upright on poles with bases shaped like Nazi swastikas.
The piece was prompted by this year's riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, Lynn said. Reactions to "American Mask" have fluctuated between misidentifying the piece as white supremacist art, understanding the intended message and expressing disgust at the desecration of the flag.
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University of Miami
Office of the President
President Julio Frenk 305-284-5155 president@miami.edu
Rudy Fernandez Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications and Chief of Staff 305-284-4330 rudyfernandez@miami.edu
How does a moron become a professor???
Libs are insane.
Tar.
Feathers...
Who is that ugly, pompous man in your picture, and where is the lady artist?
It’s Miss Jane Hathaway from The Beverly Hillbillies. Only uglier and plainer.
I always wondered what happened to Mr. Bean.
I think everyone is being way too harsh on this artist, or perhaps they don’t see what he/she/it is trying to say.
I think she is just celebrating the legacy of the Democratic Party, racism, slavery, and oppression. After all, weren’t they the ones who owned slaves and founded the KKK?
The one on the far right represents the wholesale bigotry and fascism of the left.
That muffled, “Woo hoo!”, you hear is demonicRAT Senator Robert KKK Byrd yelling from Hell.
Another sad, confused woman who looks like a dyke.
Academia is a bastion for parasite leftists. The pay is good, no one expects results, particularly for bizarre cultural marxist theories, and above all, the massive education-industrial complex is fed by massive government and student debt.
This is why our so called colleges and universities are pumping out worthless morons with diplomas and Che T’shirts.
Do tell, perfesser. Tell us more about the demonicRAT roots of The KKK, slavery, racism, eugenics, etc.
She's a bull dyke "artist" obsessed with bones. That's all you need.
Other than themselves, to turn out mindless clones.
Another homosexual heard from, blaming the normal people for her unhappy life.
And of course CNN is only too happy to broadcast this crap.
Why though? Are leftists unemployable?
I would not be surprised if these flags, had the autograph of Senator Robert Byrd Democrat W. Virginia, who was an Exalted Cyclops in the disgusting organization.
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