https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/10/robert-mapplethorpe-promoting-cultural-degeneracy-weaponizing-modern-art/ More often than not, trash has been unashamedly promoted as art: human excrement enclosed in a tin can and crucifixes suspended in urine or paintings that look like anything but works of art. The CIA did a good job of pushing the likes of Mapplethorpe and Jackson Pollock into prominence during the fake Cold War.