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Henry Clay Frick, whose mansion was turned into the Frick Museum, was among the most powerful capitalists of late 19th- and early 20th-century America. Chairman of the prodigious Carnegie Steel Company, Frick was militantly against unions, and used violence to crush workers’ attempts to take democratic control over their lives.
The industrialist “dispatched the Pinkertons to murder train unionists at his coal mine in Pittsburgh, and then he used all his money to buy art,” Geller recalled. “Then Frick moved it out of the coal mining town, because he was concerned that the air would damage it, so he just put it in his Midtown mansion.”
“It serves as a perfect metaphor for the whole thing,” Geller said, “because he can use it to deaden the insides of people, to put them to sleep, so they don’t think about why this guy is so much richer than all of us, and how much blood of workers is on his hands.”
At the museum, Geller said there was a “breathtakingly bad Renoir painting — so we surreptitiously placed a barf bag right in front of it, on a very expensive piece of furniture that was purchased with the literal blood of coal miners.”
full: http://www.salon.com/2015/11/09/god_hates_renoir_he_sucks_at_painting_and_this_is_why_you_should_care/
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