How Will Progressive Karlie Kloss Manage Ivanka Trump's Clutching Embrace Of Her New 'Sister'

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Rhonda Garelick has written a superb, consise analysis of Ivanka Trump and her brand and its historical fashionable roots in the rise of fascism. Garelick writes compararatively of Ivanka and Coco Chanel.

Now that the successful, progressive superwoman Karlie Kloss will be Ivanka's sister-in-law, it will be interesting to watch how Kloss handles this new sisterly love affair. Ivanka has been quick to celebrate her new 'sister' on Instagram. The Cut's headline of the engagement announcement summarizes what Karlie and Josh Kushner already know:Ivanka Trump Called Karlie Kloss Her 'Sister' in a Haunting Instagram Comment.

Karlie not so much, although reports are quick to note that Jared Kushner's brother Josh, the much more progressive Kushner son and Karlie's future husband, is very close to Ivanka -- a Manhattan liberal in her former life.

Man Defaces Student Painting At NYC MET Museum, Writing 'Nazi Art'

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This painting, Ghost Realm, by Amadi Rubie, grade 11, age 16, of Benjamin N. Cardozo High School, Oakland Gardens, New York, is one of the paintings in the “Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: New York City Regional Exhibition.” A visitor to the museum vandalized another student work in the show. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Educator: Minwouk Rhee.

Ryan Watson, 33, allegedly vandalized a student painting on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 19. Watson scrawled 'Nazi Art' across the work -- one of 600 included in the 'Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: New York City Regional Exhibition', on view March 24-May 29, 2017.  Each participating artist won the highest honor, the Gold Key Award, in the 2017 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, organized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.

Reports are that when Watson was confronted by a security guard, he shouted "Go back to your country!" according to the New York Daily News. He was detained by the guard and then arrested by police. Currently the incident is not being charged as a hate crime. 

Top New York Artists Protested Outside Ivanka Trump's Soho Apartment Before Heading to Art Basel

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Top New York Artists Protested Outside Ivanka Trump's Soho Apartment Before Heading to Art Basel AOC Front Page

“Dear Ivanka,” the protest’s title and name of the Instagram account sending messages to Ivanka Trump, drew notable artists like Cecily Brown, Rob Pruitt, Ryan McNamara, Jonah Freeman, Dan Colen, and Marilyn Minter; as well as writers and curators like Wendy Vogel, Brian Droitcour, Zoë Lescaze, David Velasco, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Alison Gingeras, Carolyn Ramo, and Fabiola Alondra, along with dealers and advisors Jay Gorney, Bill Powers, and Erin Goldberger, ArtNews reports.

Related: Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty November 4, 2016-April 2, 2017

Minter, who is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, told the New York Times of her involvement: “The culture changes, and fascism rears its ugly head every so often and that’s what’s happening now,” she said. “We wanted to do something to start to the ball rolling, to grow a protest, and we’re artists, so we know how to make posters.”