TIL that the CIA helped fund the Abstract Expressionism movement in order to fuel propaganda and win the Cold war.
TIL that the CIA helped fund the Abstract Expressionism movement in order to fuel propaganda and win the Cold war.
www.bbc.com
Was modern art a weapon of the CIA?
The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as the centre of the art world. But were they pawns of US spies in the Cold War?
I hope BBC is a credible source because I read it all the time.