Author: Emmy L.

  • Portrait of a Protest: Theft, Power, and the Politics of Display

    A Symbol Worth Stealing When a painting disappears, whose story finally shows up? Item of interest- General Andrew Jackson Portrait The Heist: Not for Profit—For Protest In a fictional act of resistance, General Andrew Jackson vanishes from the walls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But this isn’t your average art theft, it’s a symbolic…