Erin L. Thompson

Erin L. Thompson is a professor of art crime at the City University of New York. Her latest book, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments, is now available from W. W. Norton & Company.

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These Racist Depictions of Native Americans Still Decorate the U.S. Capitol

Speaking in support of a bill to remove all portraits of Confederates from public display at the United States Capitol last year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued that the idea of artworks in the Capitol...

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