At first glance, “Porzellan Manufaktur Allach,” Robert Russell’s current solo exhibition at Anat Egbi Gallery in Los Angeles (on through April 22), is a close study of cuteness. But after spending more time with his large, auratic paintings of porcelain animals and learning their backstory the glossy fawns, bunnies, lambs, and puppies reveal a dark underbelly. All of these objets d’art were made during the Nazi regime by forced laborers in the Dachau concentration camp. Heinrich Himmler, among the principal architects of the Holocaust, oversaw their production, calling porcelain “one of the few
Daren Wiseley, a Hillsdale attorney and former GOP chair, is shown in a video wearing what appears to be a Totenkoph lapel pin, a symbol of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (most commonly referred to as the SS…