Peter Saul, Target Practice, 1968. Acrylic on canvas, 91 1/2 × 99 1/2 in (232.4 × 252.7 cm). Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 2016. Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan, New York
Featuring curators Lucy Lippard and Peter Eleey and art historian David McCarthy, this panel—moderated by Kraus Family Curator Gary Carrion-Murayari—takes its cues from Peter Saul’s use of shock to consider art that delves headfirst into injustice, war, and oppression.