Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Art & Design Log In Log In Today’s Paper Art & Design | The Museum Is the Refugee’s Home Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Without exiles and émigrés there is no modern culture. A new show in Washington maps a century of art and displacement. ByJason Farago Aug 13, 2019 WASHINGTON — “In the first place, we don’t like to be called ‘refugees,’” Hannah Arendt wrote in 1943. She was in New York by then. A decade previously, the philosopher had fled her native Germany, without papers. After years in Paris as an “undocumented immigrant” (or, in another register, “an illegal”), she was sent with other Jews to an internment camp. She escaped, and made it to Portugal, then to the United States. But in 1943 she was still stateless, and in her mordant, indispensable essay “We Refugees” she tried to fathom her place in a flood of displaced innocents, so traumatic that even those fleeing would rather not talk about it. “Hell is no longer a religious belief or a fantasy, but something as real as houses and stones and trees,” Arendt wrote. “Apparently nobody wants to know that contemporary… Read full this story
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