Art: Communist Riches

While Kansas City was last week ceremoniously installing one of the most important U. S. collections of old masters in a marble palace Manhattan critics were traipsing down to a dingy garret on slummy 14th Street to look at the most important modern paintings of the year. The route was obscure: past a cut rate drugstore, a toy shop and a haberdashery to a grimy doorway labeled: NEW WORKERS SCHOOL; up a narrow steep staircase straight to the top floor; through the bare offices of New York's Communist Opposition headquarters, to an...

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