WaPo's Sebastian Smee reviews AU's Ralph Steadman exhibit

 I was up at this exhibit again yesterday, and have my review partially written. Fortunately I can assume a deeper level of knowledge than the WaPo critic should, so we don't overlap much.

Art’s gonzo prophet is still showing America what it looks like [in print as Steadman's gonzo view of America now looks prescient]

Ralph Steadman, longtime illustrator of the corrupt, debauched and morbidly fascinating, is the subject of an enlivening survey at American University Museum.

Review by Sebastian Smee

Washington Post November 10, 2024 : E8-9.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2024/11/08/ralph-steadman-and-another-thing/

American University advertising Ralph Steadman exhibit on Metrobuses

by Bruce Guthrie

I didn't get a good image of it, but I was impressed that Katzen was advertising the Ralph Steadman exhibit on city buses.

 

 

I've also seen it showing up on the electronic advertising boards in Metro stations.

 

 

They're definitely promoting this show!

Bruce Guthrie
Photo obsessive
http://www.bguthriephotos.com

Ralph Steadman exhibit at the American University Museum in photos

 Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing

September 7 – December 8, 2024

Ralph Steadman, Artist
Sadie Williams, Ralph Steadman Art Collection Director
Andrea Lee Harris, Exhibition Coordinator

  I may try to write a review of this for the International Journal of Comic Art, but in the meantime, I will say my buddy, photographer Bruce Guthrie, was absolutely correct. This is a must-see exhibit, even if you saw the earlier exhibit they did of his work. There's a catalog for this exhibit - $50 in pb and $75 in hc. The other shows on exhibit are worth looking at as well. I especially liked Faces of the Republican Party by Jeff Gates and A Sight to Behold: The Corcoran Legacy Collection of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Landscape Paintings.

 

 

 

 

 

Flying Dog beer labels above, and 2 below

 

The Curse of Lono

Joe Biden

Apparently some of his supplies and art is going to be auctioned off as seen in the following pictures.

Some of his books on display for reading.