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Back in the olden days, the Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin noted that “Not all things are possible at all times.”
Wölfflin was talking about historical constraints in the realm of artistic style.
Mondrian’s abstractions, for example, wouldn’t have been possible in the age of Rubens.
The point can be generalized.
Last summer, it was open season on statues and other monuments.
In June 2020, 1,000 people gathered at Byrd Park in Richmond, Virginia, “to stand in solidarity with indigenous peoples.” That day, the object of their wrath was an eight-foot statue of Christopher Columbus, which they toppled and dragged to a nearby lake for disposal.
Supreme Court takes a pass on holding a violent agitator accountable. Wed Jan 6, 2021 While Americans were preoccupied in the fall with the presidential election, the Supreme Court quietly let Black Lives Matter agitator DeRay Mckesson, an outspoken apologist for political violence directed at police, completely off the hook for the vicious maiming of a police officer at a rowdy protest he organized. Mckesson, of course, is on record as favoring mob violence against police officers. At a July 9, 2016 protest that social media star Mckesson (who has a million followers on Twitter) unlawfully led onto a highway in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the police officer involved suffered brain trauma, a head injury, and lost teeth after an unknown assailant threw a rock or piece of concrete at him. Mckesson, who had encouraged people to block Airline Highway outside the city’s police headquarters, managed to extract a cash payment from the city over his allegedly heavy-hand