His paintings sometimes sell for millions. This one went for $18.65.

Kerry James Marshall, whose works have adorned the walls of national galleries and celebrities’ mansions, couldn’t imagine charging Washington National Cathedral his usual fee to replace its Confederate-themed windows. Instead, he requested a commission symbolizing 1865, the year the nation’s last enslaved African Americans were liberated at the conclusion of the Civil War.

“It’s a full payment that I can accept as a completely free individual, able to make decisions about myself and the things I do and who I do it for,” Marshall said. “I’m completely free. And that’s what the end of the Civil War represents on a lot of levels.”

    • athos77
      -1•1 year ago

      You know, this was one of my biggest annoyances at The Other Place: someone would post an article and another person would come in to read it. But if it was paywalled, the second person, instead of either deciding the article wasn’t interesting enough and walking away; or doing one of a dozen things to get past the paywall and read the article; or actually contributing to the community by posting a non-paywalled link / the text of the article - instead of doing any of those either non-disruptive or actually-contributing things, the person just stands there and bitches, “Paywall! Paywall!”

      We’re not your mother and we’re not necessarily going to hand things to you. You’re presumably an adult and can learn how to cope with ppaywalls - Google will be more than happy to help you figure out how. Or if you can’t, then at least have the decency to just walk away without commenting paywall! paywall! like a helpless baby bird.

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        Or just post it unpaywalled so 1000 people don’t have to clammer through all these fucking hoops to look at shit you want to share

    • Decoy321
      -6•1 year ago

      So? There are dozens of ways to get around paywalls nowadays. If you use a decent browser like Firefox you’ll be able to circumvent it with ease. In addition to reader mode, you can get add-ons like noscript or unlock origin. I didn’t even notice the paywall until you mentioned it because that part never loaded in mine. There are also archive websites for anyone to use.

      For example, here’s what archive.ph retrieved for this article.