One Work: Robert Longo’s “Untitled (Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol…)”

The rioters who attacked the US Capitol building this past January were emboldened not only by ex-president Donald Trump’s dispute over the 2020 election results but by the evolving phenomenon of people disseminating false information on a vast scale via social media. Robert Longo addresses the infamous incident and its attendant conundrums in Untitled (Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol; January 6th, 2021; Based on a photograph by Mark Peterson), 2021, a charcoal-on-paper drawing measuring