Museum of Degenerates

An explosive exhibition of art by a celebrated cartoonist chronicling Americas march toward right-wing authoritarianism. Museum of Degenerates invites you to a delirious display of art by one of contemporary Americas most original and incendiary political cartoonists. Eli Valleys extraordinary work is a scathing indictment of the entire American polity, with a particular focus on the issues of Israel and Judaism at a time when these have moved to the center of public debate and action. In these pages, Valley tips a homburg to German expressionists such as George Grosz and Otto Dix who featured in The Exhibition of Degenerate Art, a 1937 Munich show that sought to ridicule the work of artists critical of Hitlers fascist regime. In an aesthetic that is strikingly original, Valley also draws on early twentieth-century American Yiddish cartoons and the work of artists who created the helter-skelter exuberance of MAD comics in the 1950s. Valleys own art, accompanied here by extensive descriptions of its genesis and context, is a howl of protest against the political, cultural and media elites driving America into an authoritarian abyss. Here is anger, pure and hot, expressed in exquisite detail and, often, disturbingly funny.