Russian expatriates in Manhattan last week used Religion to plague Art for the sake of Politics. The excuse was an exhibition of Russian Orthodox icons loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by the Soviet Government through the American Russian Institute. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts had previously shown the icons, and European cities had shown them before Boston, with nothing more than perfunctory heckling by expatriate Russians. But Manhattan serves as a loudspeaker to the world.
The Archdiocese Council of the Russian Church protested: "A gross outrage of religious feelings of tens...
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