This was an interesting moment on Mad Men this week: Don Draper picks up a piece of art in a somewhat tawdry context, thinks about tossing it, but doesn’t. After he sits and looks at it for a while, he is inspired to write a full-page ad in the New York Times, distancing his ad agency from tobacco accounts.
Fair enough; good story line.
But what did he see in the painting that inspired him?
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As a side note, the role that the New York Times plays — and played in that historical context — in presenting Draper’s vision.
