Treasures of American art bear witness to an historic insurrection
An art curator explains the resonance between the U.S. Capitol’s masterpieces and the riots Karl Kusserow © Photograph by Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images Paintings of key moments in American history hang in the Rotunda as a violent mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what can be said in as many about the perplexing and unexpectedly redolent image below? Snapped on January 6, 2021 by Reuters photographer Mike Theiler as rioters invaded the Capitol, it shows a bizarrely fur-clad one among them—later identified as Aaron Mosto...
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