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Blue Poles: sell this monument to madness

14 October 2016

3:26 PM

14 October 2016

3:26 PM

RAA Previews Major Abstract Expressionism ExhibitionJackson Pollock’s Blue Poles must be sold. Not because it’s a bad painting or because it fails the Australian test, but because it of what has come to represent to the Left.

Last week, Senator James Paterson suggested that the painting, currently on loan to the Royal Academy of Arts in London, should be sold to the highest bidder in order to help with our national debt.

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