ARTNET NEWS
June 8, 2010THE TEA PARTY ART MOVEMENT?The wild-eyed protestors of the Tea Party movement have certainly taken a space at the center of American political consciousness, as commonplace as its forces that might seem (the base of the movement is "Republican, white, male, married and older than 45," according to the
New York Times). But to date, the Tea Party’s brushes with the art world have been rare and infelicitous. Most famously,
Los Angeles Times art critic
Christopher Knight had some
fun with the mad man of the airwaves
Glenn Beck, pointing out that the logo for his right-wing, Tea Party-infused "9/12 Movement" was inspired by socialist and anarchist designs.
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