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Article: Sam Durant at Paula Cooper.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Any artist who considers pissing on the Washington Monument an interesting analysis and critique of that national icon's function deserves a good long look, and that's what Los Angeles artist Sam Durant's ambitious second solo show in New York, titled "Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C.," provided. In an essay he wrote for the accompanying catalogue, Durant credits the hip-hop duo The Coup's song Piss On Your Grave with insight about our country's slave-owning first president. Durant's project points to overwhelming evidence of a historical narrative meant to validate and justify white-colonialist violence against Native ...