The Portrait of Anthony Fauci Painted by a Mexican Who Doesn't Like the White House

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Hugo Crosthwaite (1971, Tijuana, Baja California) smiles when he hears his name alongside that of Donald Trump. “My role as an artist is not to be afraid,” he says, as if speaking of an award. And in a sense it is: the president included his portrait of the former person responsible for fighting the pandemic, Dr Anthony Fauci, among the “undesirable” pieces of the Smithsonian. An angry reaction against a Mexican who draws skeletons, virgins and …