Jartti kari mukku ajjulunginyi / Other People’s Property (O.P.P.)

Trump’s Gaza fantasy blurs satire, atrocity, and the global collapse of political language into performative chaos.

Before pop, before Warhol, before Hamilton—there was Donald Duck. In a wartime outpost in Papua, Charles Bush painted an eerily prescient vision of mass media’s encroachment. A symptom, not an agent, of pop’s first age, Bush’s work sits uneasily in art history’s timeline.

A prolific hyperproduction and sense of take-over lifted the Brio’s head out of the fray.