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"This exhibition should have never happened": The anti-Trump cartoons that got an artist fired
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‘This exhibition should have never happened’: The anti-Trump cartoons that got an artist fired go on display
By Michael Cavna July 20 [link:michael.cavna@washpost.com|Email the author]
ON WEDNESDAY evening, it was possible to walk past protesters on the north side of the White House, their signs reading “Traitor in Chief” and “Trump Dishonors the Presidency,” and head across the street to the Corcoran, where a new exhibition was spotlighting the art of a man who had just been fired for drawing anti-Trump messages in that very same vein.
Here, hung prominently on the walls, were 10 finished cartoons and eight sketched ideas that had been killed in recent months by bosses at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which last month canned its political cartoonist of a quarter-century, Rob Rogers, over such satiric ideas. Most of Rogers’s 18 artworks are critical of President Trump on such issues as immigration policy and the separation of families, national-anthem protests and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe centered on the 2016 presidential election.
The pop-up exhibit, “Spiked: The Unpublished Political Cartoons of Rob Rogers,” had its sold-out opening reception Wednesday night, in the atrium galleries of the Flagg Building as presented by George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. “Spiked” will be up till October, when it will move to join a larger show at the University of Pittsburgh.
The irony of “Spiked,” said Sanjit Sethi, director of the Corcoran School, is its very existence. ... “This exhibition should have never happened,” Sethi told The Washington Post’s Comic Riffs shortly before the opening. “The Corcoran is stepping in to provide an opportunity for this work” to be viewed.
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“Spiked: The Unpublished Political Cartoons of Rob Rogers.” Free exhibition open to the public: July 18-Oct. 14; Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Saturdays-Sundays, 1-6 p.m.; the Atrium Galleries at the Flagg Building; Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, 500 17th St. NW; corcoran.gwu.edu.
Writer/artist/visual storyteller Michael Cavna is creator of the Comic Riffs column and graphic-novel reviewer for The Washington Post's Book World. Follow https://twitter.com/comicriffs
‘This exhibition should have never happened’: The anti-Trump cartoons that got an artist fired go on display
By Michael Cavna July 20 [link:michael.cavna@washpost.com|Email the author]
ON WEDNESDAY evening, it was possible to walk past protesters on the north side of the White House, their signs reading “Traitor in Chief” and “Trump Dishonors the Presidency,” and head across the street to the Corcoran, where a new exhibition was spotlighting the art of a man who had just been fired for drawing anti-Trump messages in that very same vein.
Here, hung prominently on the walls, were 10 finished cartoons and eight sketched ideas that had been killed in recent months by bosses at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which last month canned its political cartoonist of a quarter-century, Rob Rogers, over such satiric ideas. Most of Rogers’s 18 artworks are critical of President Trump on such issues as immigration policy and the separation of families, national-anthem protests and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe centered on the 2016 presidential election.
The pop-up exhibit, “Spiked: The Unpublished Political Cartoons of Rob Rogers,” had its sold-out opening reception Wednesday night, in the atrium galleries of the Flagg Building as presented by George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. “Spiked” will be up till October, when it will move to join a larger show at the University of Pittsburgh.
The irony of “Spiked,” said Sanjit Sethi, director of the Corcoran School, is its very existence. ... “This exhibition should have never happened,” Sethi told The Washington Post’s Comic Riffs shortly before the opening. “The Corcoran is stepping in to provide an opportunity for this work” to be viewed.
....
“Spiked: The Unpublished Political Cartoons of Rob Rogers.” Free exhibition open to the public: July 18-Oct. 14; Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Saturdays-Sundays, 1-6 p.m.; the Atrium Galleries at the Flagg Building; Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, 500 17th St. NW; corcoran.gwu.edu.
Writer/artist/visual storyteller Michael Cavna is creator of the Comic Riffs column and graphic-novel reviewer for The Washington Post's Book World. Follow https://twitter.com/comicriffs