A gunman injured Donald Trump during a campaign rally this weekend, killing one person and wounding two others. Pictures of the former president pumping his fist in the air with an American flag in his background and blood dripping down his face have been hailed as “historic” and “iconic,” despite their obvious propagandistic impulse. Today we analyze the memes that demystify the image, reminding us that while Trump is okay, we’re not. In a must-read opinion piece today, our News Editor Valentina Di Liscia shifts the lens to the ways in which the discourse around Trump’s photograph elides a conversation about America’s gun violence problem and “distorts the collective understanding of this moment as exceptional.”
And, as usual, there’s much more, including our the July Mini Art Crossword. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
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In the compulsive analysis of the former president’s image, we risk overlooking the mundanity of gun violence and its less mediagenic casualties. | Valentina Di Liscia
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ART & PERFORMANCE
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While cultural critics slobber over the former president’s media savviness, meme-makers are here to burst their disingenuous bubble. | Hakim Bishara
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Milroy begins his paintings with direct observation but ends up someplace that I cannot name. | John Yau |
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“We’re building on the generations before us that have grown from the fertile grounds of California,” said Museum of Performance Art founder Samuel Vasquez. | Matt Stromberg
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