Title : "While these are beautiful objects and tell important stories that need to be known, it's disappointing to see the MET giving legitimacy to Crystal Bridges Museum."
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"While these are beautiful objects and tell important stories that need to be known, it's disappointing to see the MET giving legitimacy to Crystal Bridges Museum."
"The museum is open-to the-public storage for the personal art collection of some the Walton heirs of Wal-Mart fame — known for paying their employees so little that as of 2022 they are reported to be the biggest recipients of food stamps and Medicaid in most states."That's a comment on the NYT article "The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met/Before the Civil War, an enslaved artisan from South Carolina created storage vessels that transcend ceramic traditions."
At the center of “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina,” a revelatory exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, stands a majestic artifact: a stoneware storage jar that may qualify as one of 19th-century America’s great sculptures....
The jar, from the collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., was created by a man now called David Drake, but who was known for decades only as Dave the Potter or Dave. A gifted enslaved artisan, Dave was admired during his lifetime for his skill and strength.... He died in the 1870s.
That commenter sets himself/herself up as an arbiter of morality and insists that Walmart's current pay scale — cashiers make $13 an hour — take precedence over the Metropolitan Museum's elevation of the pottery of an American slave.
I used the word "slave," but I notice that the article never does. It says "David Drake... who was known for decades only as Dave the Potter or Dave." A commenter over there says:
I thought Dave the Potter was originally called Dave the Slave.
That's what I'd always heard. The NYT has censored an epithet as if it had not been used, even as it's pointing out that "David Drake" went by other names.
Never heard of Dave Drake. Even have the book about Dave the Slave, a Potter. When living in Philadelphia, that museum in the early 2000s held an exhibit of Dave the Slave's pottery....
If the potter called himself Dave the Slave and Drake is the surname of the slaveowner, why is David Drake considered the better name? Is the noun "slave" now forbidden in polite speech? I see the NYT article uses the word "enslaved" — so that anywhere the noun might seem to be needed, the slavery is transferred to the adjectival position. Dave the Slave must be David Drake, the "enslaved artisan." There are also references to "enslaved potters" and "enslaved people."
Obviously there are conventions of propriety among present-day elites who want to display themselves in the best light. Whether they are making the right choices is questionable, and we can expect the conventions will change once again.
Perhaps clear speech or historically authentic speech will become the preference. For now, I'm noticing that the powers that be are suppressing the word "slave." Does that erode white supremacy or preserve it?
That's a comment on the NYT article "The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met/Before the Civil War, an enslaved artisan from South Carolina created storage vessels that transcend ceramic traditions."
At the center of “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina,” a revelatory exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, stands a majestic artifact: a stoneware storage jar that may qualify as one of 19th-century America’s great sculptures....
The jar, from the collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., was created by a man now called David Drake, but who was known for decades only as Dave the Potter or Dave. A gifted enslaved artisan, Dave was admired during his lifetime for his skill and strength.... He died in the 1870s.
That commenter sets himself/herself up as an arbiter of morality and insists that Walmart's current pay scale — cashiers make $13 an hour — take precedence over the Metropolitan
I used the word "slave," but I notice that the article never does. It says "David Drake... who was known for decades only as Dave the Potter or Dave." A commenter over there says:
I thought Dave the Potter was originally called Dave the Slave.
That's what I'd always heard. The NYT has censored an epithet as if it had not been used, even as it's pointing out that "David Drake" went by other names.
Never heard of Dave Drake. Even have the book about Dave the Slave, a Potter. When living in Philadelphia, that museum in the early 2000s held an exhibit of Dave the Slave's pottery....
If the potter called himself Dave the Slave and Drake is the surname of the slaveowner, why is David Drake considered the better name? Is the noun "slave" now forbidden in polite speech? I see the NYT article uses the word "enslaved" — so that anywhere the noun might seem to be needed, the slavery is transferred to the adjectival position. Dave the Slave must be David Drake, the "enslaved artisan." There are also references to "enslaved potters" and "enslaved people."
Obviously there are conventions of propriety among present-day elites who want to display themselves in the best light. Whether they are making the right choices is questionable, and we can expect the conventions will change once again.
Perhaps clear speech or historically authentic speech will become the preference. For now, I'm noticing that the powers that be are suppressing the word "slave." Does that erode white supremacy or preserve it?
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