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One Fine Show: “Edmonia Lewis, Said in Stone” at the Peabody Essex Museum

This long-overdue retrospective tells the story of a radical artist hiding in plain sight.

One should never underestimate the power of political merchandise. Our current president surfed into office on a raft of red baseball caps that were beloved and reviled by both sides, neither of which could deny their power. In Cleveland during the 2016 convention, I saw a man weep openly because a protester had stolen his. In 2024, the Democrats started selling merch depicting their candidate as nefarious, meant to imply he wasn’t, even as his supporters wore t-shirts showing him with glowing red eyes. They went on to lose 31 states.

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The sculptor Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907)........

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