The old fashioned way to tell the folks what mushrooms to take. Pictured is the Ling Chi = eternal life. On the other side of the jade is a sacred deer eating the mushroom. By the way, it grows in the US.
(This is part of the left's continuing war in art culture.)
Dozens of US War Veterans Are Urging MoMA to Reject ‘Toxic Philanthropy’ From Investors in Private Military Companies
Their letter was sent in solidarity with artists who have asked the institution to cut ties with controversial board members.
Taylor Dafoe, February 4, 2020
Forty-five US military veterans who served in Iraq, Kuwait, and in other theaters around the world have sent a letter to the Museum of Modern Art asking it to reject funding from “toxic” sources.
“As veterans of the Gulf War and the ‘Global War on Terror,’ as well as working artists ourselves, this issue is very important to us,” the letter’s signers wrote. “We acknowledge our own role in creating the conditions for ongoing death and turmoil in Iraq, and we continue to grapple with this reality through our art, activism, and lives.
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The service members are part of the Veteran Art Movement, a collective that describes itself as a “decentralized network of veterans and service members” who use art to confront “a society grappling with endless war, militarism, and dehumanization.”
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The group is calling on MoMA’s board of trustees, Leon Black, to divest from Constellis Holdings, a private security firm and defense contractor formerly known as Blackwater. The company played a sizable role in the US-led War in Iraq, and three of its contractors were convicted of a deadly shooting in Iraq that left 14 civilians dead.
In the letter, the writers say that companies like Constellis “have profited greatly from the coercive exploitation of Iraqis, while operating under the aegis of the US military, using service members as disposable labor and marketing props.” The writers say they have witnessed firsthand the “parasitic, profit-driven motivations of defense contractors.”
The veterans are also speaking out specifically against MoMA board member Larry Fink, whose company, BlackRock, invests in companies that own private prisons. Business such as these, the writers say, “represent a domestic war against people of color and the poor.”
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/veterans-urge-moma-to-reject-toxic-philanthropy-1769736