Humour, art and controversy – EU 2009

Humour, art and controversy – EU 2009

Entropa sculpture: Stereotypes are barriers that need to be removed (David Černý, 2009) Source. What do we see? To start its first presidency of the EU in 2009, the Czech Republic commissioned the Czech artist David Černý, to produce a work of art for the entrance...
Teddy bear guilty of corruption – Portugal 2022

Teddy bear guilty of corruption – Portugal 2022

What do we see / read? The mock article was published in January 2022 in a Portuguese spoof newspaper entitled O Inimigo Público (The Public Enemy), which is a weekly supplement of the Público daily newspaper. Text of the article in translation: “João Rendeiro was...
Judge’s testicles – Slovenia 2021

Judge’s testicles – Slovenia 2021

What do we see? The cartoon shows the current Slovenian Minister of the Environment Andrej Vizjak squeezing the testicles of a judge (“sodnik” is the word for ‘judge’ in Slovenian). The cartoon is by Marko Kočevar and first published in the Slovenian daily Delo, on 5...
Whitewashing the past – Ireland 2021

Whitewashing the past – Ireland 2021

Ian Knox cartoon 6/10/21 in The Irish News What do we see here? This cartoon by Ian Knox was published in the cartoon section of the opinion column in The Irish News in October 2021. The watercolour, painted in black, blue and sepia, is divided into a left and right...