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John Sherman is a writer and copy editor in Brooklyn. He has written for BOMB Magazine online, The Billfold, The Daily Dot, Brooklyn Magazine, and The L. He's on Twitter.

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The Sordid Irony of a Pro-Trump Art Show

by John Sherman October 11, 2016

People thought #DaddyWillSaveUs was satire; it was, instead, the dismayingly self-serious House of Trump Art.

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Longing for Keith Haring’s Lighthearted Penises

by John Sherman September 13, 2016

It may seem unusual to uphold a book of penis drawings as a significant art-historical moment, but Manhattan Penis Drawings for Ken Hicks creates an unignorable link between Haring’s early work and his homosexuality.

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How the Identity Politics of ‘Empire’ Play Out on Its Walls

by John Sherman April 27, 2015April 29, 2015

Not 10 minutes into the pilot episode of Fox’s TV drama Empire, Kehinde Wiley’s bright yellow portrait “Prince Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria” looms into view above the dining room table where the men of the Lyon family are gathered.

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