Face/Off (w/ Madeline Pendleton)
Movies vs. Capitalism
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CIA Funding of Abstract Expressionism
- The CIA covertly funded abstract expressionist art during the Cold War.
- This was a strategy to contrast the USSR's realistic, labor-focused art with the supposed creative freedom of capitalism.
- Artists like Jackson Pollock were unknowingly part of the CIA's "long leash" program, which distanced them from the agency while they received funding.
- The CIA worked with the New York MoMA to promote this art internationally.
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