Culture & Barbarism: Silk-screened tent-canvas & C-Print of miniature model, 40″ x 60″ x 2″ (1990).

“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”  —Walter Benjamin

1914: While attempting to unionize the Colorado Iron and Fuel Company in Ludlow 11 miner’s children, and two of their wives are killed by strike-breakers and National Guardsmen. Notably, the guard’s wages were paid for by the owners of the mine: the Rockefeller family. The events of April 20th, 1914 becomes known as the Ludlow Massacre.

1929: The Museum of Modern Art is founded in NYC by John D. Rockefeller and his family foundation in part as an outgrowth of a publicity campaign developed by Ivy Lee for Rockefeller after disastrous press he received following the Ludlow Massacre.