Art history and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies professor Mary Coffey reaffirms the importance of Orozco’s Mural and anti-authoritarianism in higher education.
Discussion about the weather vane and other objects should be informed by scholarship.
The Hovey murals open dialogue about College history.
In public art controversy, the art in question is almost always the occasion for voicing other grievances. For example, when attacking the colonial legacies of racial inequality seem impossible, the easier and at times more productive thing to do is to criticize a work of public art and demand some ...