Museum removes all art done by immigrants in protest over Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College made the powerful statement to highlight immigrants’ contribution to the US
A US museum has removed all artworks created or donated by immigrants in protest over Donald Trump’s so called ‘Muslim travel ban’.
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts made the powerful statement to highlight immigrants’ contribution to the US.
Curators have either removed or covered 120 works of art at the liberal arts college museum as part of the ‘Art-Less project’.
One of the main artworks missing is the portrait of George Washington which was created by Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller - an immigrant who came to the US in the 1790s.
The work was also donated to the Davis Museum by an immigrant family.
Museum Director Lisa Fischman says the project illustrates the kind of loss that we would feel without the gifts of immigrant artists and immigrant collectors.
"We have removed or cloaked these works to demonstrate symbolically what the Davis Museum would look like without their contributions to our collections and to Wellesley College, and to thereby honor their many invaluable gifts," the museum said.
The move was a protest against Trump’s executive order suspending travel from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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There was a ban on people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the country for 90 days.
Refugees were banned for 120 days, except those from Syria, who were banned indefinitely.
The President is reportedly planning to replace his executive order “in the near future”.
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