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Humour, art and controversy – EU 2009

Humour, art and controversy – EU 2009

by Editor | Mar 27, 2022

Entropa sculpture: Stereotypes are barriers that need to be removed (David Černý, 2009) Source. What do we see? To start its first presidency of the EU in 2009, the Czech Republic commissioned the Czech artist David Černý, to produce a work of art for the entrance...

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