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…

When the Tiverton, Rhode Island owners of the Atlantic Sports Bar & Restaurant posted an it's-as-hot-as-an-oven-out-and-I-should-know Anne Frank meme, they thought it was funny. Maybe because the particular realness of the girl had been commodified into a meme already: Frank is the go-to smiling, lovely, nonthreatening Holocaust Icon reliably delivering a simple, feel-good message about our love and goodness, an antidote to those other images and facts and records that are a total disquieting bummer. Anne--she belongs to us so we can call her

I blissfully didn't know you, the @AnneFrankTrust existed until the recent kerfuffle. So I took a look around: On International Women's Day you chose the Virginia Woolf who said, "I do not like the Jewish voice; I do not like the Jewish laugh," and who confessed,"Although I loathe anti-semitism, I do dislike Jews" to fete. How jarringly not OK it is to place Anne Frank's signature below Woolf's image as some sort of Jewish seal of approval or insinuation that Frank and Woolf share some sort of feminist-sisterly bond