ブルックリン美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ブルックリン美術館Instagram)「When asked, in 1985, “What is liberty?,” James Baldwin suggested that one could quote the Declaration of Independence, but went on to say: “Liberty is the individual passion or will to be free, but this passion, this will is always contradicted by the necessities of the state, everywhere, for as long as we’ve heard of mankind, as long as we’ve heard of states. … For a Black American, for a Black inhabitant of this country, the Statue of Liberty is simply a very bitter joke, meaning nothing to us.” This July, we’ll examine how artists in the Brooklyn Museum collection have dissected liberty, as a monument and as a concept, in the context of the United States. #reflectionsonliberty⁠ ⁠ Ruffin Cooper (American, 1942-1992). Face (Statue of Liberty), 1979. Chromogenic photograph. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 87.149.6」7月8日 7時16分