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Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/usa@midwest.social

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Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted by two of the foremost American artists of the twentieth century, Ben Shahn and Philip Guston. No o...

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[–] Infynis@midwest.social 4 points 6 months ago

That's a hell of a metaphor. I love the New Deal art we have here in Lansing. I wish the modern government was concerned with making its citizens lives not only livable, but pleasant