If the Spanish hadn’t exterminated the Mayan and Aztec cultures, would we be demanding that Mexico and Latin American countries give it back? How inconvenient that truth is, yet we laud the Mexican and Latin American cultures steeped in Catholicism and Spanish European traditions.

I hope someone sees this post before Hyperallergic deletes it.

They are also ignoring the fact that most western countries and the U.N., when this conflict is over, are calling hard on Israel to essentially give Gaza to the Palestinians and their ruling body (imperfect as it is), no occupation, no walls to keep them in, no territorial governance.

Bottom line, these protesters are either wantonly ignorant of history and foreign affairs, or just systemically anti-semitic. Perhaps both. And I include Hyperallergic staff in that group, as they are constantly covering pro Palestinian protests, while giving no background on the bigger picture.

Stick to reporting on art news. Period. If people are willing to subscribe to point out your one-sided agenda in comments, you have a problem. Having said that, I appreciate that you are allowing the other side to voice an opinion.

If it couldn’t be any worse, she rehashed Atmosphere n a larger than life form, letting colored smoke into the clear desert sky that could be seen for miles. That may have flown in the late ‘60s, but hopefully we are more enlightened now, to acknowledge that this type of art is no more than littering. It may have little impact on the planet, but it condones such activities on the collective psyche.

Dinner Party only makes her later participation in Desert X even more sad.

Ms. Nayyar, I appreciate your enthusiasm for the arts, as well as grave human rights. Your essay in Hyperallergic felt embarrassing and irresponsible and quite juvenile. It felt like we were reading from the “National Enquirer.” You did not come off as a professional but as a bully in the school yard.

One should also note, that in deference to the indigenous Native Peoples, many sacred places on public land are not made public. These days Park Service works very closely with the Native Tribes to restore artifacts in its collections that have been collected in the past.

Point of reference, the leading photo in the article is most likely, judging from the terrain in the background, the Manzanar Japanese Internment Camp in the Eastern Sierras. Perhaps this can be acknowledged? The camp has been preserved and has always been well documented as part of our recent dark past. The photo needs some context, in my opinion.

“Two Robert Rauschenberg works went well below estimates, while several men artists frequently outpaced predictions.”