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1993 curator Mary Jane Jacob put together a show in Chicago called “Culture
in Action” that came to deWne this mode of work for municipal cultural
agencies and museums. 42
In 1989, several former members of the PAD/D Not For Sale group
formed REPOhistory, 43 a public art collective speciWcally concerned with the
artistic recovery of lost pasts. Their Wrst sign project, marking sites of past
conXicts in lower Manhattan like the location of old New York’s slave auctions,
were important in helping turn public historical representations toward
a reXection of this nation’s often uncomforting past.
FIGURE 7.10. REPOhistory members Ed Eisenberg and Tom Klem (on ladder) installing a
counterhistorical street marker on a lamppost near Wall Street, New York, 1992. Photograph courtesy
of Gregory Sholette.