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        Guy Fawkes Mask at the New York Public Library is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

        In 2011, designer Adam Bezer gave us this Guy Fawkes mask. We may want to don it once more.

        Blake Gopnik

        Updated Jul. 12, 2017 12:12PM ET / Published Jan. 13, 2014 4:09PM ET 

        (The New York Public Library: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, reproduction courtesy of the artist)

        Remember this? Three years on, doesn't it already feel like a leftover from a bygone era? Isn't that too bad?

        This version of the Occupy mask appeared in The Occupied Wall Street Journal, in November 2011, thanks to the designer Adam Bezer. It's now on view as one of the least light-hearted objects in a show called "Play Things", at the main branch of the New York Public Library. The mask reminds me that many of the most important improvements in American life – women's rights, union rights, Black rights – only came about after demonstrators took to the street, and risked life and limb for their goals. Occupy, with its public theatrics, was central to our slow-dawning awareness of this country's chasm between have-nots and have-way-too-much-es. If the majority's going to take back its share of the nation's riches, those Guy Fawkes masks may need to go on again.

        For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit BlakeGopnik.com/archive.

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