In the June issue of the august New Criterion, our cultured doctor attends an exhibition at the Museé Picasso in Paris of art that had been deemed ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis in Munich in 1937.

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The original exhibition, comprising “degenerate” (entartete) works mainly by German artists that had been confiscated and sequestered from German museums and collectors, was intended to provoke the contempt and hatred of its two million visitors. Indignation that the state had paid good taxpayer money for this art was intentionally aroused.