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Auction of Art Made by Japanese-Americans in Internment Camps Sparks Protest
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/auction-of-art-made-by-japanese-americans-in-internment-camps-sparks-protest/Japanese-Americans are protesting an auction slated for Friday of hundreds of artifacts from World War II camps where Americans of Japanese descent were imprisoned.
Rago auction house in Lambertville, N.J., is offering photos of internees and objects that they made, including cigarette cases woven from onion sack string and wooden family nameplates that were attached to barracks. The internees gave their artworks and furniture to the historian Allen Hendershott Eaton while he was researching his 1952 book, “Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps.”
A petition on Change.org calls the sale “a betrayal of those imprisoned people who thought their gifts would be used to educate, not be sold to the highest bidder in a national auction, pitting families against museums against private collectors.” A Facebook page for the cause has attracted almost 1,800 likes as of Monday evening. In posts, people are calling for the collection to be turned over to institutions. Internees and their descendants have also written to say that they recognize their own family members in the photos for sale....
Toshi Abe, a board member of the Japanese American Citizens League and a spokesman for the group protesting the sale, said in an interview that postponing the auction would allow Japanese-Americans to research a better solution for the collection than dispersal on the market.
Rago auction house in Lambertville, N.J., is offering photos of internees and objects that they made, including cigarette cases woven from onion sack string and wooden family nameplates that were attached to barracks. The internees gave their artworks and furniture to the historian Allen Hendershott Eaton while he was researching his 1952 book, “Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps.”
A petition on Change.org calls the sale “a betrayal of those imprisoned people who thought their gifts would be used to educate, not be sold to the highest bidder in a national auction, pitting families against museums against private collectors.” A Facebook page for the cause has attracted almost 1,800 likes as of Monday evening. In posts, people are calling for the collection to be turned over to institutions. Internees and their descendants have also written to say that they recognize their own family members in the photos for sale....
Toshi Abe, a board member of the Japanese American Citizens League and a spokesman for the group protesting the sale, said in an interview that postponing the auction would allow Japanese-Americans to research a better solution for the collection than dispersal on the market.
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He was in one as a child.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026519936
Oh, my! 
