Hungarian Conservatives Threaten to Tear Down a Public Art Installation That Has a Black Lives Matter Message
Artist Péter Szalay plans to install the work in Budapest's ninth district. January 7, 2021 There are calls to cancel Péter Szalay's planned Budapest art installation over its Black Lives Matter theme. Photo courtesy of Péter Szalay. Conservatives in Hungary are threatening to tear down a planned public art installation in Budapest because of its social-justice message. The three-foot-tall sculpture, by artist Péter Szalay, depicts a rainbow-striped Statue of Liberty on bended knee, an allusion to US athletes kneeling during the national anthem to protest police violence against Black A...
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