Will the Creative Class Go MAGA?

POris –If you hear the word cultureWhat will you achieve? Nazis, gloriously, stretched Their weapons– The answer is supposed to be based on the belief that there is something about art and culture, which is essentially hostile to authoritarian values. But the myth that creativity is always on the side of progress – artists should also be humanists, and therefore the enemies of reaction are equally appreciated by many of us to the left. However, culture is determined in the Trump era, we usually think the common set of “consecrated” values ​​with its manufacturers. In Christian Kennedy Center). But we will always have Hollywood, Broadway, National Public Radio, Saturday evening liveSmithson and Whitney.

This assumption, as if comforting, did not worry for a long time visiting Musée d’rsay, a large collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist art, located on the former railway station on the left bank of the Seine. There you will find the dazzling works of Monet, Monet, Dega, Renoir and Cezan. And on the last floor there is Temporary exhibition Thumbnails and drawings by Rene Herman-Polo dedicated to undertaking Drift. trial, conviction and possible release Alfred Dreisfus, the Jewish captain in the French army, who is accused of espionage in Germany and is accused of treason that broke French society at the end of the 19th century.

Drewus story is well known: the right and anti -Semitic forces within the French army, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on the Devil Island and spent four years, rot, outside the French Guiana coast, before the company organized by his family and headed the writer. Herman-Paul, who covered the drifus consideration as a sketch of the artist for Le FigaroIt was part of a small drifusard group, which also included Claude Monet, Marseille Proust and Camille Pisar.

But the exhibition also shows that the artists responsible for most treasures of the Orshei-personal Edgar Dega, pictures, paintings and sculptures of the dancers attract thousands of visitors to the museum annually, but also Pierre-Avgusta Renoar, Renoir ,, Renoir, Visitors to the museum annually, as well as Pier-Auhusta Renoir ,, Renoir ,,, which Paul CezanaAnd Ogust Rodin-all firmly in the anti-Dreifus camp, along with the poet Paul Valery and prose writer Julia Verne. Despite his life-long friendship with the writer Lyudovich Halevi (born in a Jewish family), he became a virulent anti-Semite-one moment by throwing out the model from her studio and accusing her (falsely) when she was Jewish when she expressed the vague sentiment. Renoir just despised Jews in private orderWhile the Rodin seems to have been a more opportunist who, when forced to choose the parties, chose safety.

Four months in Trump’s second term know too early to know how many members of their own creative class will follow the example of Wall Rate legal firms and League League administrators. But, probably, many are amenable to the possessive power and patronage, especially with a lot of great success of America, which were already in the “Magic” section. I am sure that these four years will check all of us: our beliefs, our courage and above all our ability to solidarity.

The latter, as Amy Litlfield reminds us, was already tried, and in the case of women who should stop the pregnancy, they found a desire. But, as she demonstrates in her deeply moving history, the inability to provide reproductive assistance to everyone is inaction we can no longer afford. According to John Samli, we cannot afford to ignore the excruciating consequences of gambling on the Internet, or, as Jacob Silverman demonstrated, unverified cryptocurrency metastasis into our financial system. And speaking of illustrations, we have Jimmy Tobias on the nuclear arsenal of America and an excerpt from the brilliant graphic biography of Jessica Mitford Mimi Pond.

Plus LOVA GARKA on the novels of the Chinese middle-class Chinese, Kari Jacobs about training in Los Angeles, Peter Linebo and Marcus Repoker on the radical historian Christopher Hill, Dan Synikin on the cult of a close reader, and Bijan Stiphen on the latter. Not to mention the prophetic editorial offices, consecrated comments and opening eyes.

Thanks for the achievement Nation.

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