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Dushko Petrovich Córdova
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Painting for PNTG, writing for n+1, editing for Paper Monument, teaching for SAIC VCS.
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Very happy to see the print version of @markkrotov.bsky.social ‘s Triumph of the Worst, with my painting, Trump on My Phone, as the illustration.
March 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Sirens
March 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Was really honored that Mark Krotov used my painting Trump
On My Phone to illustrate his brilliant post-election diary in n+1.
Triumph of the Worst | Mark Krotov
For years now, commentators like Mounk have singled out the Democrats’ alleged fealty to “wokeness” as the reason for their electoral underperformance. Never mind that no nationally visible Democratic...
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March 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Siren
Lights from a police siren reflecting off the car roof
March 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Blue light and reflections
Circular blue light emanating from a police siren
March 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Gaza Cloud Study, 2024
March 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Was really grateful Anthony Elms wrote about my Gaza paintings for the New York Art Critics Association Best of 2024 issue. 🖤
March 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Sunday!
March 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Teleprompters!
March 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Artist Talk
Sunday, March 23, 2:00

Join the artist in conversation with Matt Morris as they discuss Petrovich's new project, PNTG. Tracing the place of the siren in this body of work, this dialogue will examine the historical and contemporary functions of painting in visualizing the political.
Image of blue police siren
March 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Siren
Reflective glass surface showing the bluish and yellow red glowing trapezoids of a police siren.
March 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Excerpts from Mahmoud Khalil’s statement today, dictated to his lawyers from a detention center in Louisiana. The clarity of mind in the midst of such injustice—it’s so inspiring.
My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law. Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn't the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn't the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing. Justice escapes the contours of this nation's immigration facilities. I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear. My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. has continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention. For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being targeted. While I await legal decisions that hold the futures of my wife and child in the balance, those who enabled my targeting remain comfortably at Columbia University. Presidents Shafik, Armstrong, and Dean Yarhi-Milo laid the groundwork for the U.S. government to target me by arbitrarily disciplining pro-Palestinian students and allowing viral doxing campaigns - based on racism and disinformation - to go unchecked. If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation. Students have long been at the forefront of change - leading the charge against the Vietnam War, standing on the frontlines of the civil rights movement, and driving the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Today, too, even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students who steer us toward truth and justice. The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent. Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all.
March 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I have a show of my siren paintings up this month at Comfort Station in Logan Square, Chicago. I’ll be talking about the work with the incomparable Matt Morris on Sunday at 2:00, come on by!
March 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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I noticed that teleprompters suddenly became very conspicuous and developed a sweeping theory about robots and clowns. Truly!

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Teleprompter, Robot, Clown | Dushko Petrovich Córdova
The teleprompter is certainly not as important as the flag pins, the red tie, the red hats and all the other visuals of the MAGA movement. But it offers an interpretive key to the moment.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM