haha, thanks for writing this, it is a sentiment echoed through many friends i have made over the last ten years. it has been interesting how little attention the cia funding of pollock, kooning, and rothko has been talked about, one of the largest non iconoclastic shifts in art history secretly funded and manipulated in the land of the free...
anyway, i have a lot of opinions about this, but they all contradict each other, and i wind up arguing with myself for hours on end. so i wont do that here. just wanted to say thanks for bringing up the cultural implications of this sale!