The art was made to be seen, so what happens when it's not? Artists talk about the professional, financial and emotional ramifications.
L.A. artist replaces the Statue of Liberty and Mr. Rushmore with migrant farmworkers, enslaved domestic workers and interned Japanese Americans.
That kind of buying, she said, “is not enabled by stock-market crashes and worries about personal well-being. Museums have no idea what their finances are going to look like. Nobody has any sense of what the state of their finances will be. The show was not meant as a financial safety net for me, but there was a lot of money put into it, and there’s no way to know if it will be recouped.
“The show itself was about translocation, pattern moving from one culture to another in the 1700s,” she said. “And now the pandemic is moving from culture to culture, a virus of pattern. On a conceptual level, it’s so bizarre.” “The show is about interconnectedness,” he said, “which the virus situation makes graphically clear. It’s about refuge and the sacredness of everything. So perhaps the timing is right, even though the show is not going to be seen.”
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