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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

"Titus Kaphar makes painstaking copies of historical paintings and then alters them—with a whitewash, tar, by shredding or binding the canvas, by making paintings behind the paintings— to expose hidden truths." The Myth of Benevolence, 2014 Titus Kaphar www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Artwork that looks like a painting of Thomas Jefferson whose canvas has been half peeled away from the frame to reveal underneath a hidden painting of a young Black enslaved woman representing Sally Hemings, who Jefferson raped at 14 and fathered several children with

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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

One of my favorite pieces, I wish I could see it in person: Enough About You (2016)

A painting of a bunch of bewigged 18th-century white men (including Elihu Yale) with an inclusion of a small Black child serving them. The child has a steel collar locked around his neck. The painting has been crumpled up like trash, but the corner where the boy is has been left pristine and framed in an ornate gold frame

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

And Kaphar depicted the little boy with such loving care and attention to detail, unlike the original centering his enslavers with the little boy as accessory or decoration. yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/10...

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Yale Center for British Art redisplays controversial painting of Elihu Yale and enslaved child - Yale Daily News

The Yale Center for British Art has redisplayed a painting of the University’s namesake after investigating the identity of an enslaved Black child depicted in the portrait.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

I love this. Thank you for sharing it!

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True Libertine @alantennisplayer.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Very nice 👍🏽

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