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How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War

Open Culture 08 April 2026 7h ago
How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War
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Considering the possibility of a truly proletarian art, the great English literary critic William Empson once wrote, “the reason an English audience can enjoy Russian propagandist films is that the propaganda is too remote to be annoying.” Perhaps this is why American artists and bohemians have so often taken to the political iconography of far-flung […]
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