Larry Wilson: Moscow’s Pussy Riot and the Police State everywhere

Some works of art could be said to be perfectly timed.

“Guernica” called attention to the horrors of war as practiced by fascist Spain in awful harmony with fascist Germany. It was and is propaganda of the highest order

The Eiffel Tower, considered an ugly abomination until about five minutes after it was erected, came along at the perfect moment, the dawn of real modernism in 1889, for a big piece of metal to be understood as public art.

“Police State,” the recent performance...