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Camarada Picasso: Art for Propaganda’s Sake

Chavismo tries to pay lip service to highbrow art with a heavily politicized week-long Picasso event where, in fact, the 149 pieces displayed were anything but political. How political can a blocky coffee pot be?

José González Vargas September 5, 2018

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