Drawing Political Fire
The brochure for her latest exhibition, in fact, unabashedly quotes her on “the economic crime of capitalism.” This ferocious, soapboxy show is, mind you, smack in the middle of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. (through June 19). The building was insinuated onto the Mall by the entrepreneurial clout of the late mining mogul Joseph H. Hirshhorn. The dozen works in the exhibition (mixed-media drawings and two large unstretched paintings) scathingly indict everything from the CIA’s connection to the South African police to the invasion of Grenada to the Thomas-Hill hearings-right on the turf that hatched them....