Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday

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Status

Released

Production

Partisan Films

Aired

2020-09-01

Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday

An American art collector’s estate plans to build a glass house that will permanently memorialize the collector’s many prints and paintings. The spot selected—several acres of undeveloped parkland in upstate New York—was the site of a young woman’s murder, the circumstances of which have been exploited for political purposes by the founder of a far-right populist party called National Advance.