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Gorchov, LeWitt, Benglis in US Mission

Art for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations: Nothing to Ruffle the Eagle’s Feathers

May 17, 2011

The art collection inside the new United States Mission to the United Nations, as curated by Yale art school dean Robert Storr, is American art at its least provocative. The decorative mix of mainly abstract prints by well-known U.S. artists is unadventurous and uniformly anodyne — about what one would expect for a government building: nothing to ruffle the American eagle’s feathers.

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Jason Edward Kaufman in the British Museum, London.
Jason Edward Kaufman is an art historian and critic with expertise in museums and the international art world.

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