An Evening With Caricaturist Roman Genn
Roman Genn\xa0(born May 17, 1972, Moscow) is an American artist. He is most well known for his illustrations for the conservative magazine\xa0National Review, of which he is a contributing editor.\xa0Genn grew up in Moscow and moved to the United States in 1991. While living in the USSR he was repeatedly arrested for publicly exhibiting anti-government caricatures.Besides the National Review, Genn's work has appeared in the\xa0Los Angeles Times, the\xa0New York Times,\xa0Wall Street Journal,\xa0Washington Post,\xa0Chicago \xa0Tribune,Baltimore Sun,\xa0New York Daily News,\xa0International Herald Tribune,\xa0Newsday,\xa0Newsweek,\xa0Harper/Collins,\xa0Penguin Group\xa0(USA), Saatchi & Saatchi,\xa0TV Guide,Barron's, and\xa0The American Lawyer, among others.\xa0There was an uproar during the Clinton years when Genn depicted Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore on a \xa0National Review\xa0cover titled "The Manchurian Candidates."Genn's covers depicting\xa0Sonia Sotomayor\xa0as a Buddha and President\xa0Barack Obama\xa0as a\xa0proctologist\xa0produced similar responses.I \xa0For more information on Roman Genn, go here:\xa0http://www.rgenn.com/\xa0 \xa0 \xa0This show\xa0sponsored\xa0by Studentsforabetterfuture