Donald Moffett: IMPEACH

On 18 December 1998, with the House about to vote on impeaching Bill Clinton, John Lewis took the floor and told the story of surviving a devastating storm. His plea was for the country to stay together "as one house and as one family". Partway through, the Judiciary Committee chairman's gavel tries to cut him off.

There is nothing to look at. Moffett made the piece in 2006 from a Library of Congress recording, and it is only speakers and a media player running a loop of 2 minutes 20 seconds. You step in and get Lewis's voice, the echo of applause and that gavel. Brooklyn and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts bought it together in 2018, and Lewis went to hear it himself in Richmond in 2019.

It is on the 5th floor, included in general admission, and part of the museum's Drawing America: US@250 season. More of Moffett's work is in Common Sense, on until 8 November.