Megan West(erby)

"Modern art was CIA 'weapon'"

northerndownpour:

pyrrhosrepublic:

“For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.”

ART IS THE WEAPON

DEFEND YOURSELF

I’ve been trying to figure out an appropriate response to this article for days.

This is far better than anything I’d come up with. ♥

(Source: corona--graminea)

8 November 2010 ·