A "red landscape" by Chinese artist Li Keran inspired by a line of Mao Zedong poetry, has fetched $4.48 million (2.25 million pounds) at a Christie's auction in Hong Kong -- a world auction record ...

Oh, and at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, the National Gallery of Art has 21 different versions of Warhol’s ‘Mao.’ Twenty-one.

Putting breasts and a gormless expression of child-like delight on the late Mao Zedong in the name of art may seem nothing short of blasphemous for China's culture guardians.