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Political Correctness: Picasso Locked in theBasement
September 19, 2007
One of the world&;s greatest collections of modern art is locked in the basement of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran. And it&;s not &;just the Picassos &; the Kandinskys, the Miros, the Warhols. The Monet, the Pissarro, the Toulouse-Lautrec, the Van Gogh. Possibly the best Jackson Pollock outside the U.S.&;
The art has been locked up almost 30 years, as the mullahs who run Iran don&;t want the people to see such &;degenerate&; art&;too dangerous and corrupting. It&;s yet another point of agreement for them with Hitler, apparently.
The good news is that the Iranians haven&;t (yet) destroyed the art as the Taliban did the historic Buddha statues of Afghanistan; probably too valuable.
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