STOP THE HATE!!! Margaret Lee explained: 3 REASONS WHY IF MARGARET LEE IS NOT YOUR HERO, GO KILL YOURSELF, number 3 will shock you -- 3 RAZONES PORQUE Si Margaret Lee no es tu heroe, MATATE PUTA/BITCH

1- Some people think of Margaret Lee as a gallerist selling art in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. This is FALSE. In case you haven't noticed, Margaret Lee is NOT Laura Owens or Wendy Yao. Some people will say this is "racist" but let's get right down to it and be honest, people like Laura Owens and Wendy Yao, who are 100% ethnically white of european descent and whose ancestors played a central role in the native american genocide and raping of indigenous populations, just don't have the genes required to naturally defend the working people of color in a given neighborhood.

 

{img description: a working class activist of color wearing a tshirt of a political candidate who champions the working classes of chinatown at one of 47 canal gallery's two spaces, a gallery that has nothing to do with the gentrification of chinatown with a working class bag in the background indigenous to the neighborhood}

 {img description: a working class bag indigenous to the neighborhood of chinatown and filled with anti-capitalist pamphlets}

To express her support for the working classes of Boyle Heights rightfully vandalizing white galleries in Los Angeles, Margaret Lee collaborated with Barney's to destroy capitalism by creating window displays that showcase her extremely political art. In this art, politics meets little shits made of plaster, simulations, the way capitalism is a simulation that must be destroyed, but Margaret Lee's art must not be destroyed. As a nod to Manual Labor, Margaret Lee used her hands and got them dirty.

By putting art in windows, one like, does not necessarily put "art" "art" like the kind of art that is sold on a market. This cactus, for example, expresses the true 14% xicano heritage of the artist by refering to the desert, a mainsay in her country of origin, Mexico.

As a gallery, 47 canal uses no money and does not engage with any form of capital that comes from profit made on the real estate market.  This would seem to pose a conflict with a collab w barneys because so far, this here seems like just some bullshit luxury art collab and the powerful class struggle isn't immediately apparent. That's a typical mistake when examining the work of Margaret Lee, an artist whose work is so subtle you have to wait until the last screenshot until the mark of the intellect is revealed. 

Very, very, good and nice...

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