They were called a " cyberterrorist organization" by the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium.
In addition, they maintained a software repository and a wiki-based site dedicated to Internet commentary. They also released software products, and leaked screenshots and information about upcoming operating systems. They targeted several prominent websites and Internet personalities including Slashdot, Wikipedia, CNN, Barack Obama, Alex Jones, and prominent members of the blogosphere. Sometimes that means facing people or events that challenge us.The Gay Nigger Association of America ( GNAA) was an Internet trolling group. “Part of understanding, whether it’s our history as a community of Jews or our history as a nation, sometimes that means asking hard questions. “We are committed to exploring history from multiple different perspectives,” Perelman said. He said he was not party to any conversations Weitzman had with Kimmel or other board members.īut, said Perelman, the museum is dedicated to presenting multiple viewpoints. Josh Perelman, the museum’s chief curator and director of exhibitions and collections, was asked about the Ethel Rosenberg incident.
“It’s the only museum, I believe, that is dedicated to American Jewish history.” If he could help the museum “avoid falling into bankruptcy and becoming an office tower,” he would find it. “I began to come around and send people, my kids,” he said. Weitzman was impressed, and he realized he could have an impact. But would you send me a shot of that screen?’ And within a week her picture was down.” I helped build the place 20 years ago, but I don’t run it. “I said, ‘What in the world is that museum thinking? Ethel Rosenberg? Known? Yes.
Weitzman realized he could have an impactĪ few years ago, he called up his friend Sidney Kimmel, who had just stepped down as museum board chair, and said, ”‘Sydney, I’m looking at 15 renowned Americans on a screen here, and one of the pictures in the lower right corner is Ethel Rosenberg,” Weitzman said, referring to the museum’s Only in America gallery hall of fame. “I’ve actually had an impact on the museum experience,” he said. “These guys benefited from it,” Weitzman said glancing around at Galperin and a few museum board members. Weitzman did not care for that idea so, about a year ago, he sold an extremely rare Double Eagle gold piece, a unique stamp, and another block of four stamps at Sotheby’s for a reported $32 million. “I’m involved with Penn a lot and then I heard that this building might become an office tower because the bank was owed all this money.”
“I loved it when I visited it,” Weitzman said of trips going back several years. When Weitzman arrived at the museum after visiting Penn, he said that this kind of innovative display has been characteristic of the museum throughout his experience of it. Ezekiel fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and later crafted both Confederate and Union monuments, as well as sculptures decorating the United States Capital. Interestingly, the Lee statue was created by Moses Jacob Ezekiel, a young Jewish sculptor from Virginia who lived in Rome. Horowitz’s sculpture presents the covered sculpture cloaked in black. Six months later, a judge ordered that the covering be removed. Afterward, Charlottesville’s city council ordered that the Lee statue be hidden, covered by a black tarp. Nearby is an untitled Horowitz sculpture that explores the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., where hundreds of white supremacists, Klan sympathizers, and neo-Nazis gathered in a violent protest over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Ringgold’s powerful image hangs in front of a more conventional view of the statue from a 19th century advertising poster, possibly for soap, said Claire Pingel, the museum’s chief registrar and associate curator. The proximity of the various works creates a “dialogue,” museum curators said.įor instance, a copy of Faith Ringgold’s “We Came to America” (the original is in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) depicts Africans swimming toward a Black Statue of Liberty as a ship burns in the background. Juxtaposing Horowitz’s work with objects from the museum’s core collection, the exhibit is scattered across four floors.