Art Politics ; Museum Displays Eccentric Collection

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SPRINGFIELD -- The Founding Fathers gave us the right to walk into an institution as hallowed as the Springfield Museum of Art and ask, without fear of repercussion, "Is it art?"

Case in point: The placard below an object in the museum's new Art & Politics exhibit reads, without a whiff of irony, "lithography on metal."

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Art Politics ; Museum Displays Eccentric Collection

The object?

A metal trash can with a caricature of Nixon veep Spiro T. Agnew on it.

So is it art?

Well, there's no...

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