Peter Jelavich
Peter Jelavich teaches modern European intellectual and cultural history at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include political satire and censorship of the arts. He is the author of Berlin Cabaret, among other books.
Amy Sherald’s Trans Forming Liberty (2024) was to have been part of a traveling exhibition of her work at the National Portrait Gallery. But Sherald cancelled that stop when the inclusion of that painting was put into question. Trans Forming Liberty stands solidly within the American tradition of expanding freedom; indeed, it is eminently “patriotic.”
