'Roger Ailes Memorial Show' Opens On The Lower East Side

LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — A Lower East Side gallery asked more than a dozen artists to reflect on the legacy of Roger Ailes, just weeks after he died amid a slew of sexual harassment allegations at Fox News.

The yours mine & ours gallery on the Lower East Side launched "The Roger Ailes Memorial Show: Fair and Balanced" this month. The exhibition was prompted by an essay in the New York Times penned by Monica Lewinsky shortly after Ailes' death.

"This is not another obituary for Roger Ailes, who died last week 10 months after being ousted at Fox News," Lewinsky wrote in May, shortly after Ailes died at his Palm Beach home. "It is, I hope, instead an obituary for the culture he purveyed — a culture that affected me profoundly and personally."

Curators at the gallery, located at 54 Eldridge St., sent the piece to 16 artists, asking them to contribute to the show, according to ArtNet news. Artists generated pieces reflecting on Ailes' legacy, on gender dynamics and more for the current exhibit

"Post-election politics and media have been on all of our minds," co-curator RJ Supa told New York Magazine's The Cut. "Between the firing of Bill O’Reilly and the death of Roger Ailes, it almost felt hopeful, like we could emerge from this on the other side."

The exhibit will be open through August 4.

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