'Hindsight is Always 20/20' opens Saturday, Sept. 11 'Hindsight is Always 20/20' opens Saturday, Sept. 11

How good is America's political vision? The exhibition "Hindsight is Always 20/20" raises this ever timely question. The exhbition opens Saturday, Sept. 11, and will be on view through Nov. 28, in the Amsden Gallery at the Ulrich Museum of Art. Admission is free.

For "Hindsight," an installation of 43 prints, artist R. Luke DuBois took the State of the Union addresses from each U.S. president and created an algorithm that sorted the addresses by word frequency. The prints present each president's most frequently uttered words as a Snellen chart -- the charts used by optometrists to test patients' vision. The artist muses on presidential vision and rhetoric and proposes to test the metaphorical eyesight of the nation. "Hindsight" yields surprising insights into the power of political rhetoric and offers a historical perspective on current politics.