What's funny is that many on the right were convinced that abstract art was a communist ruse intended to upend American culture and thus weaken the US. The art

What's funny is that many on the right were convinced that abstract art was a communist ruse intended to upend American culture and thus weaken the US. The article does make you ask questions, though: >If any official institution was in a position to celebrate the collection of Leninists, Trotskyites and heavy drinkers that made up the New York School, it was the CIA. Was it just a matter of proving to the Soviets that America could be even more cultured due to freedom of expression? Or was it the Trotskyites looking to show that Stalin's brand of communism was inferior to Trotsky's? It does make you wonder...