Article 5HKK9 Decolonizing Rodin: America’s racial reckoning comes to a San Francisco art museum

Decolonizing Rodin: America’s racial reckoning comes to a San Francisco art museum

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Peter-Astrid Kane
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Wangechi Mutu's I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? juxtaposes the Kenyan American artist's large-scale, matriarchal works against neoclassical busts

The racial reckoning that has swept the US for the last year has touched many institutions, high and low. But it's only now, as the country reopens, that the results are becoming visible.

Fine arts museums have grappled with questions of representation and cultural equity, as well as their historical role in imperialism and outright theft, and now their public programming reflects these discussions.

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