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I am late to this, but the supposedly merely-decorative ring of swastikas adorning the bases of some antique lamp posts in Chris Burden's #UrbanLight at @LACMA may not have been neutral symbols & certainly don't now offer neutral, historical visual enrichment as the museum and
and @CityOfGlendale assert: latimes.com/socal/glendale… One argument for retaining the swastikas is that they were applied way before the Hitler era. This is false. hragvartanian.com/2008/02/09/gle… 
A quick check of @smithsonian reveals that the swastika became a Nazi symbol––an explicitly means an Aryan-supremacist antisemitic symbol––in 1920 before the posts were installed:
