"I note that you signed up to FreeRepublic about the time that this issue first broke -- do you have any kind of connection to the "artist"? Because you seem to be taking this quite personally, and going far out of your way to defend her."
No, I'm not a troll for the artist. I never met the woman. I simply have a different opinion. I work in the arts and am accustomed to taking on fights with angry hordes of lefties, so I probably have a higher tolerance and ability for putting up a good fight. I didn't agree with the NEA funding bizarre art projects in the 1980's by people that did work solely to shock and disgust. I simply don't think that this women has done anything to deserve such hostility.
She made a defective product (on purpose?) and wants the city to pay for her to correct her defects. The city should have sued her.
How in the heck can anybody misspell "Einstein" as "Eistein"? That's just ignorance, not art.
If this mural wasn't in front of a library or any government building I'd say you have a good argument. It would work for a private home, whorehouse or strip club just fine.
Society is being dumbed down enough without help from the "arts".