Labor History Today (6/30/19): Revisiting Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art

On this week’s show: Robert Cherny on Victor Arnautoff, the Russian-born artist who reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. The San Francisco Board of Education voted this week to paint over one of his most famous murals. (Click here to sign the petition to save the mural: https://www.change.org/p/san-francisco-board-of-education-prevent-the-removal-of-victor-arnautoff-s-mural-from-george-washington-high-school?cs_tk=AnAxHEYYo0ktAjzyHF0AAXicyyvNyQEABF8BvHQ90GnBhshHppqH0GRmpmI%3D&utm_campaign=4389edb2b31944b6baa35276239bd0f1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=petition_signer_receipt&utm_term=cs) Interviews by Patrick Dixon and Allan Wierdak. Ford Hunger March, Pam Parker, from the jazz opera "Forgotten: The Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant," music and lyrics by Steve Jones. www.forgottenshow.net Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Produced & engineered by Chris Garlock and Patrick Dixon.