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‘WHITE GOLD,’ a poem by Christine Larusso
(Willem Verbeeck / For The Instances)
This story is a part of Picture situation 8, “Abandoned,” a supercharged expertise of changing into and religious renewal. Benefit from the journey! (Wink, wink.) See the complete package deal right here.
It might be clever to let you know this like a plainsong:
no bullshit. To speak concerning the white gold — lithium — deep
beneath the Salton Sea, beneath lifeless fish and passing birds
with woolen names like wooden stork and bittern. How
each dry patch of land round this physique,
shaped by runoff and overreaching agriculture — an accident —
had been forgotten till we found
a wealthy mineral to make our personal, to maintain the vehicles
at velocity. To allow the filched territory and motor to maintain
steady. Nobody has, and nobody will, examine the associated fee.
We pledge allegiance to land that by no means belonged
to you or to me. Most of us are thieves. Salt of the earth, mineral
soil, these on the brink, the ocean’s edge. DDT, arsenic, lead.
There are not any prayers for the receding water,
the mud storms that attain for miles.
Perhaps I do know the sensation this land feels:
previous the dew of younger magnificence, caught
in a passing storm of males and their calls for, wishes.
(Willem Verbeeck / For The Instances)
What’s left to salvage or worship? I ask the faint line
that extends like a slender river from the nook of my eye,
research the cloud my breath makes when winter drops.
Sure, the desert will get chilly. They are saying it’s the large
inexperienced alternative, and nobody has vitality left to argue.
A bottomless cup full of guarantees: We’ve heard this opera earlier than.
I got here right here to whisper one thing beautiful and fleeting,
a narrative of a woman nearly like me, who loves an journey
and rejects the sting of each horizon, every line within the poem
teetering on with out ending. However I got here up empty, bare
with nothing however melancholy for the long run and filth in my braids,
a physique that may’t assist it. A love letter, decomposed.
Christine Larusso is an L.A.-based poet. Her first e book, “There Will Be No Extra Daughters,” was chosen by Carmen Giménez Smith because the 2017 winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Rising Author’s Residency Prize. Her poems have appeared in publications together with the Literary Evaluation, Pleiades and Courtroom Inexperienced. She is a producer for Rachel Zucker’s podcast “Commonplace.”
Willem Verbeeck is a Belgian photographer primarily based in Los Angeles, primarily focusing his work on the on a regular basis landscapes round him.
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A man walks past the entrance of the Kunsthaus Zurich on March 14, 2023. The museum is investigating the provenance of paintings over a possible connection to Nazi looting.
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A Swiss museum said five artworks will be removed from public view on June 20 as it collaborates with the owner of the artworks to investigate whether the works were looted by Nazis during World War II.
On longterm loan to the Kunsthaus Zurich museum from collection owner the Foundation E. G. Bührle (or Bührle Foundation) the paintings in question are Jardin de Monet à Giverny by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh’s The Old Tower, La route montante by Paul Gauguin, Gustave Courbet’s Portrait of the Sculptor Louis-Joseph and Georges-Henri Manuel by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
In a statement issued on Friday on its website, the museum said the Bührle Foundation requested the removal of the artworks as it assesses their provenance. The renewed scrutiny comes as a result of the U.S. State Department’s latest best practices for handling Nazi-looted art, published in March. These expand the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art set forth in 1998.
“The Kunsthaus welcomes this stance, but very much regrets that, with respect to our visitors, five of the pictures are being removed from the Kunsthaus’ rooms by the current owner, the Bührle Foundation,” the museum said. “The Bührle Foundation is acting comprehensibly and correctly in accordance with the agreement with the city of Zurich and in accordance with the provisions of the permanent loan agreement.”
“The Foundation strives to find a fair and equitable solution with the legal successors of the former owners for these works, following best practices,” said a statement in German from the Bührle Foundation.
The foundation said it is also conducting a separate investigation of a sixth work currently on display at Kunsthaus Zurich, Edouard Manet’s La Sultane.
“The work does not fall within the scope of [the U.S. State Department’s] “best practices” due to the sales processes, but is classified as a case that must be taken into account separately,” the foundation said in its statement. “Due to the overall historical circumstances, the foundation is prepared to provide symbolic compensation.”
Focused on French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks, the Emil Bührle Collection, managed by the Bührle Foundation, is a core part of Kunsthaus Zurich’s offerings.
According to the museum website, the foundation’s loan of around 200 artworks “is permanent and can only be terminated with many years’ notice, for the first time at the end of 2034.”
Twenty-five countries, including Switzerland, have so far endorsed the expanded U.S. State Department guidelines for dealing with Nazi-confiscated art. The new agreement follows the 1998 Washington Conference Principles, which focused on providing restitution to the families of the original owners for treasures that were either stolen or forcibly sold by Nazis.
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Hundreds of thousands of paintings and millions of books as well as cultural and religious artifacts were stolen from Jewish owners by Nazis in the Holocaust. Many have still not been returned to their rightful owners.
According to a recent report by the World Jewish Restitution Organization and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, countries such as Russia, Romania, Spain, Denmark and Turkey have made scant progress in trying to restore looted artworks to the original owners or heirs over the past quarter of a century.
Although Switzerland remained neutral during World War II, it maintained strong economic ties to Nazi Germany and its allies.
“Confiscated artworks were often saved for private Nazi and German collections, while some pieces were sold to buyers through neutral countries like Switzerland to raise capital for purchasing additional art pieces and to purchase materials for the Nazi war machine,” states an article about Nazi looted art from the National Archives’ Holocaust Records Preservation Project. “Additionally, Switzerland offered a large market to sell off ‘degenerate art.’ “
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