Artist Behind Controversial MLK Sculpture Responds To Critics | Amanpour and Company

Heated debate has surrounded a new monument commemorating #MartinLutherKing Jr. and his wife #CorettaScottKing. Unveiled in Boston earlier this month, #TheEmbrace sparked backlash and even mockery. Now, artist #HankWillisThomas is speaking out about his work, alongside the Rev. Liz Walker of #EmbraceBoston, the organization that funded the project. #MichelMartin
#PublicMemory #PublicArt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YrHJ5AbhNA

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Glad it wasn't the view of the organizers!
This really fascinating from a #PublicMemory perspective:

“We wanted to get away from this great person version of statues and we wanted people to imagine that those are their arms, those are the arms of someone who has embraced them, those are the arms of someone that they want to embrace, they have embraced," Paris Jeffries said. "It’s a memorial to honor the Kings and those other leaders, but it’s also a memorial for all of us."

In a end-of-year Times of Israel retrospective about moving articles is a story about efforts at remembrance in Gdańsk by Polish poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski.

"During World War II, Granary Island in the Polish port city of Gdansk was the site of a Jewish ghetto...."

#Gdańsk #Poland #Memory #PublicMemory #Commemoration #RedMouseGranary #Ghetto #WWII #WW2 #GrzegorzKwiatkowski

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-forgotten-ghetto-in-the-heart-of-gdansk/

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/voices-of-2022-a-dozen-posts-that-moved-and-shook-us/

Excited to be joining #SearchlightArchive's Time and Emotion workshop this December! I'll be discussing the role of #Malaysia's #farright in #popularhistory making and its consequences for #publicmemory.

My contribution will be based on notes and observations from 2017-present, and my intent is to push the discursive frontiers of far-right research to include perspectives from beyond the 'West' i.e. #Malaysia, #Singapore and #SoutheastAsia. Looking forward   !!

My #introduction:

My name is Lucy Burgchardt, and I am a #rhetoric and #publicmemory #scholar. Sometimes, I like to research #nationalparks

Other times, I get wild and research #presidentialrhetoric

Truthfully, though, I spend most of my time #teaching

It’s nice to be here!