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RONNI BAER: When I first looked at this painting in the context of this exhibition, I asked myself, “How can we tell the difference between a mistress…

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Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice Delancey)

This painting of a wealthy couple takes on new political relevance in relation to our First Lady. The story of this portrait for me has always been…

Issue: How is This Political?

Miracle I

As news outlets cover immigration, legal and illegal, and the plight of refugees taking to the waters of the world, personal stories of sacrifice may…

Issue: How is This Political?

American Collar II

Around 1990, Yager began to make jewelry out of the stuff of the streets—crack vials, syringes, bullet casings, and broken auto glass—that she found…

Issue: How is This Political?

Miss America

Inundated as we’ve been over the course of the last few weeks with images of American Olympic athletes draped in flags, and specifically with news of…

Issue: How is This Political?

Liberty Brooch

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is well known for using brooches to make nonverbal political and diplomatic statements. This began…

Issue: How is This Political?

Guernica to Wounded Knee

Natchez layers histories, artistic practices, and popular culture references into this vibrant, yet sharply political, image. At left, he paints a…

Issue: How is This Political?

Seated Giant

Goya made timeless statements of a political nature throughout his print series—Caprichos, Disasters of War, Disparates, and even the Tauromaquia on…

Issue: How is This Political?

My Identity

My Identity is a personal and political self-portrait. Through four photographs, it suggests that even as the artist experiences 20th- and 21st…

Issue: How is This Political?