What Does the Statue of Liberty Stand For?
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Last July, Amy Sherald announced that she was canceling the National Portrait Gallery stop of her solo exhibition American Sublime because of concerns that the Smithsonian Institution had attempted to censor her painting of a Black trans woman, Arewà Basit, posing as the Statue of Liberty.Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to President Donald Trump, responded to Sherald’s decision with satisfaction. “The Statue of Liberty is not an abstract canvas for political expression &
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