Set foot in the National Gallery of Art’s exhibition marking America’s 250th birthday and it is immediately clear this is not the kind of jingoistic, flag-waving orgy that Donald Trump is plotting for 4 July.
There, to be sure, is the Statue of Liberty, but not as millions of tourists know it. Instead the statue is evoked by an image of a Black woman from the South African photographer Zanele Muholi and by a colour screenprint – geometric planes and shapes against a backdrop of diagonal purple stripes – from Roy Lichtenstein.
