PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts is presenting "Do You, Ms. Jones?” an exhibition in conjunction with the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

We all know that America (and the world) is at an odd dangerous place, a crucial crossroads.

Our freedoms melt like icecaps. We know that the political process is totally flawed, that political conventions no longer come up with candidates or planks, that they are no longer responsive to the needs of our people, that they are platforms for publicity, promotions of positions that already known. Probable presidential candidates include combover demagogues and hypercritical career politicians, while rational, populist, and progressive revolutionaries are ignored by the press.

The Press is Big Business, the Military Industrial Complex is Big Business, health care and insurance companies rig prices for profit, college tuitions fund administrations instead of educations. Racial fears and religious stereotypes inflame ancient suspicions while drone retaliations multiply terrorist retributions. An enlightened logic that considers a fair distribution of wealth, the shared concern for climate and the earth, the rights of privacy but also the representation of ideas are ignored, while a manufactured consent is enforced.

The artists in this dynamic exhibit include Sam Durant, Hans Haacke, Pope L., Liz Magic Laser, Zoe Leonard, Ken Lum, Dave McKenzie, Pepón Osorio, and Hank Willis Thomas. These diverse works of sculpture, painting, and video mimic agitprop signs (Durant, Thomas), seemingly allude to the bipolar direction of the Democratic campaign to date (Osorio), question the generic double-speak of politicians (McKenzie), memorialize local martyrs to political causes (Lum), petition for gender parity (Leonard), show that black lives do matter (Lum, Pope L., Thomas), and question the state of the union (Haacke) and affirmative systems of free choice (Laser).

This exhibition is free and open to the public.