From the posted article, this sentence stands out as representative of the power of modern art to disrupt cultural values.

> When modern art was attacked for undermining American values — the Times called the Armory Show "part of the general movement, discernible all over the world, to disrupt and degrade, if not to destroy, not only art, but literature and society, too" — Quinn worked the press, giving interviews to New York papers in which he labelled unsigned attacks like that one "Ku Klux criticism."