At the Tate Modern museum in London, they reopened just after the coronavirus lockon, to discover that the installation – thought to have been bold when it first opened last fall in the museum’s enormous entrance – now seems positive clairvoyant. It’s a statement about slavery by American artist Kara …
Read More »Bristol removes statue of Black Lives Matter protester who replaced monument to slave trader Edward Colston
London – The sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester who appeared on a pedestal formerly occupied by a statue of a slave trader, which was downed and thrown into a river last month in Bristol, England, was removed Thursday by the city. The city of Bristol has yet to …
Read More »Statue of UK slave trader Edward Colston replaced by one of Black Lives Matter protesters
London – The statue of a slave trader who was knocked down and thrown into a river Last month in Bristol, England, it was replaced overnight with a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester with a raised fist. The new Jen Reid statue, which helped bring down the 17th-century …
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