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Hope and Despair in the American Socialist Movements of the 1930s

Art for the Millions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

October 2, 2023 • by Mitchell Abidor
The MET's new exhibition, "Art for the Millions" shows the various ways that artists and left-wing organizations reacted to and inflected the social and political movements of the time. ...

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