MoMA Showcases Art from Banned Countries

While the validity of Trump’s executive order restricting entry of migrants from seven predominantly-Muslim countries is being evaluated in courts, NYC’s Museum of Modern Art has already taken a stand against the ban. The MoMA has:

reconfigured its fifth-floor permanent-collection galleries — interrupting its narrative of Western Modernism, from Cézanne through World War II — to showcase contemporary art from Iran, Iraq and Sudan[.]

Each piece of art is accompanied by the following notice:

“This work is by an artist from a nation whose citizens are being denied entry into the United States, according to a presidential executive order issued on January 27, 2017. This is one of several such artworks from the Museum’s collection installed throughout the fifth-floor galleries to affirm the ideals of welcome and freedom as vital to this Museum, as they are to the United States.”

-KitJ