The 25 Best Artworks About the U.S. Flag, From the Patriotic to the Provocative

This conceptual piece is one of the rare artworks in U.S. history to have been decried by a sitting President. "I don't approve of it all," George H. W. Bush said, sounding a similar sentiment being voiced at the time by conservatives across the country. Bush's comments came as controversy What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag? swept the nation, roiling both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where it was first presented while Dread Scott (then known as Scott Tyler) was still a student, and the U.S. art scene writ large.