Trolls Protest Shia LaBeouf’s Anti-Trump Protest Art

A few years ago, after he starred in “Transformers,” the actor Shia LaBeouf seemed poised to become the next Johnny Depp; instead, he started behaving more like the next James Franco. In 2014, he showed up at the Berlin Film Festival wearing a tuxedo, with a brown paper bag over his head. This was a piece of performance art called “I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE,” which he had created with the artists Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner. The trio went on to produce a skywriting project, a hitchhiking project, and, most recently, “HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US,” a piece of anti-Trump protest art, launched on Inauguration Day. The work, according to a statement, consisted of “a camera mounted on a wall outside the Museum of the Moving Image,” in Queens. Members of the public were invited to recite, into the camera, the titular mantra. The statement continued, “The participatory performance will be live-streamed at www.hewillnotdivide.us continuously for four years, or the duration of the presidency.”