Posted on 12/21/2004 5:55:03 PM PST by hipaatwo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A portrait of President Bush (news - web sites) using monkeys to form his image that was banished from a New York art show last week amid charges of censorship was projected on a giant billboard in Manhattan on Tuesday.
"Bush Monkeys," a small acrylic on canvas by Chris Savido, created the stir last week at the Chelsea Market public space, leading the market's managers to close down the 60-piece show.
Animal Magazine, a quarterly arts publication that had organized the month-long show, said anonymous donors had paid for the picture to be posted on a giant digital billboard over the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, used by thousands of commuters traveling between Manhattan and New Jersey.
The original picture will be auctioned on eBay, with part of the proceeds donated to parents of U.S. soldiers wishing to supply their sons and daughters with body armor in Iraq (news - web sites).
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld came under fire from soldiers in Kuwait earlier this month who complained that they had to use scrap metal to armor their vehicles.
"Many of my friends are over in Iraq," Savido said in a statement.
The painting offers a likeness of Bush but the image is made up of monkeys swimming in a marsh. It was originally priced at $3,500 in the show's catalog.
Organizers expect more than 400,000 drivers to see the billboard each day for the next month.
It can be easily ignored.
....so? We won the election big time.
So long as this bozo isn't getting tax dollars for his "art," no; however, I will say that this so-called artist is showing off his extreme stupidity. I pity him.
Who cares? WE WON!
The stinking liberals continue to show thier intellect.
He's President Bush monkey to them.
ignore it. this liberal bunch is mre sore than a thumb smashed by an anvil. they keep calling bush a monkey... illiterate etc... but who is running circles around them?? Bush !!! lmao
like Chevy Chase calling our rpesident a dumb f... Chevy did not go to Harvard, instead he got a degree in English from some unknown college. Who's the dumb f?
Just ignore it. There will plenty of people who feel just like you about it.
D1
people ave the freedom to be as stupid as they want in this country
ignore him, or even better go "neener neener WE WON ah ha ha ha ha"
Ooh, brutal! (But I am LMAO because this guy brought this on himself!)
***...banished from a New York art show last week amid charges of censorship....***
It's interesting that when the owner decided to cancel the show, it was called censorship. Yet, the owner merely expressed his OWN opinion, and he's not allowed to have one. So, once again only the liberals can have an opinion.
In any event, I suspect the show was cancelled because merely removing one picture would give the socialists more ammo to sue for discrimination.
Do we have a FReeper artist who can do a picture of this clown using a-holes?
This will hurt Bush as much as did Michael Moore's antics.
"The stinking liberals continue to show thier intellect."
Speaking of liberals showing intellect, I was having a nice online discussion with a girl who is in Iceland today. We were talking about being nice to others and doing things for no other reason than because it's the right thing to do.
And then she said it.
" I always thought all Americans were ignorant or conservative but I guess I was wrong."
She was shocked when I read her the riot act and called her a biggot. I was so far outside her little stereotype that she couldn't comprehend that I was one of those very "ignorant conservatives" that she couldn't stand.
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