“Some of this art was allegedly pushed by our State Department during the Cold War”
Interesting.
Like Hillary supporting all the weird occult creepy artists when she was SoS.
https://art.state.gov/portfolio/modern-art-and-the-cold-war/
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...