Critical canvas: behind the year's most political art show

At this year’s Spring/Break in New York, artists are addressing political unease in a carefully chosen space next to the Trump World Tower.

Text-based artwork is prevalent throughout the show, including a piece by Margaret Roleke that reads “Weapons of Mass Destruction”. The artist brought the artwork to be shot at a local shooting range in Danbury. Roleke, a mother of four, got involved in gun control after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012. “I lived near Newtown and knew the grandfather of one of the children killed,” she said. “It’s an epidemic in this country and is killing more people than ever.”