Lawrence Pollard

African Renaissance Monument - From Above

North Korea’s biggest export? Giant statues. To African dictators.

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“These statues look like they’re made to be toppled,” says historian Adrian Tinniswood. “They’re statements of liberation but they represent a failure of confidence — where are the African designers and African sculptors who’d be better representing African consciousness?”

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Lehman Brothers’ art

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America’s Hollywood fringe

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