Job Smeets Explores America' Fading Cultural Hegemony with Whimsical Insightfulness in a Solo Show in New York

There’s been a lot of talk recently about America’s decline – its democratic institutions have been shaken, its economic power challenged and its pop culture dominance seems to be fading. In any debate such as this in which the complicated subject of the US is examined, it sometimes takes an outsider to put things into perspective as French sociologist and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville demonstrated almost two centuries ago with his seminal book “Democracy in America”.