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10 hours agoAttention, Fascism Ahead
Artists respond to political events in the US with tributes, protests, and critical exhibitions while debates about immigration threaten America's art market dominance.
Six months before his momentous first trip to the United States, Joan Miró sent a letter to his New York City gallerist, Pierre Matisse. Writing from repressive Francoist Spain in the austere aftermath of the Second World War, the Catalan artist was searching for new frontiers. "In the future world, America, with its energy and vitality, must play a leading role," he told Matisse." I have to be in New York to be in direct, personal contact with your country; my work will benefit from that shock."