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Art In America: Painting Gets Pulled From White House Following Furor [Art In The Age Of]

As soon as the list of art works requested for display in the White House was released, every political blogger suddenly turned into an art critic, and Watusi by Alma Thomas somehow made it to the center of the storm. Full Article at Jezebel

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