Dissent at 50

October 14, 2004 | This article appeared in the November 1, 2004 edition of The Nation.

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In the summer of 1953, the New School for Social Research hung a yellow curtain over a mural by the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco. Orozco's transgression?

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