Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.

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In looking back at the image by Lewis, I'm realizing there's another possible reading, as the figure at left is holding an object that could be a broken bottle. So perhaps the wounded Black man has already been attacked, & the police officer is stepping in not to help but to assault him further

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I've been thinking a lot lately about this 1943 watercolor—Untitled (Police Beating)—by Norman Lewis. What's striking is not only depiction of violence, a subject for many Black artists, but also the onlooker who responds gleefully: recognition there will always be those who exult in state violence

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Jacob Lawrence, Rain, 1938

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Note how in Jacob Lawrence's painting, none of the residents of the neighborhood carry umbrellas, unlike the well-heeled subjects of Gustave Caillebotte's Impressionist scene. Lawrence's figures do what they can, fashioning improvised rain hoods or just hurrying to get out of inclement weather

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