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Anka Dabrowska, a Warsaw born queer woman artist living and working in London, spoke to Artlyst on the eve of an exciting new project in the seaside town of Margate. Anka is a storyteller. She is a collector of the hidden tales she finds in the detritus others leave behind. She is deeply interested in the lives of others and objects that belong to those people that we too often overlook. Her work explores how the public negotiates its own landscape by transforming the every day and the mundane into magical sculptures or ‘anti-structures’ and intricate drawings that really do defy categorisation.
Arlington House – Encyclopedia Virginia
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Lyon s legacy: When Arlington was Black – Greater Greater Washington
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March 12, 2021 at 2:45pm
Lyon’s Legacy is a limited-run opinion column on the history of housing in Arlington. The views expressed are solely the author’s.
“A nation may lose its liberties and be a century in finding it out.” -John Mercer Langston
My county’s seal is a six-columned pediment, classical white on a blue field. This is the facade of Arlington House, built by enslaved Black people for George Washington’s step-grandson, the later home of Robert E. Lee, and the namesake of the county.
For us to make Arlington a county we can be proud of, we must understand how the racism in our past runs deeper than an image of a facade. For the new seal to be more than an empty symbol, we must use that understanding to build an antiracist future. To shape the change that is coming, we must know the legacy not only of Robert E. Lee but also of Frank Lyon and the men like him who, a hundred years ago, turned our county from hilly farms into the exclusive suburbs we know today