Art Exhibit Featuring Bush Stamp Probed (Pro-Assassination "Art" At Columbia College In Chicago)

Yahoo! News/AP ^ | April 12, 2005 | Tara Burghart

[MisterRepublican]

[1FASTGLOCK45]

I hope they fear in their sleep, those little artsy bi*ches.

[Echo Talon]

The exhibit's curator, Michael Hernandez de Luna, said the inquiry "frightens" him.

Michael how do you think the Secret Service feels? It's their job to protect the President.

[Ann Archy]

PATHETIC twits.

[oolatec]

Add this to it...

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/browse/Ntt-kill%20bush_pp-_N-0_pv-Kill~Bush.10411556_No-1_Ntk-All_D-kill%20bush_Nao-1_p-2

[BenLurkin]

They really should cool their jets.

They may be very unhappy how people who don't like their sick little exhibit choose to interpret "free speech"

[Paleo Conservative]

I bet they'll have trouble boarding airplanes the rest of their lives.

[NationSoConceived]

More AP incompetence on guns? Thats not a revolver...

[fight_truth_decay]

Curator in previous controversy ..this is why (will paste the important part)



"They just want to make sure it isn't something more than a statement," Brown said.

This isn't the first time Hernandez has had a brush with the feds over a fake stamp. In 2001, authorities said they suspected he was behind a bogus stamp that bore a black skull and crossbones and the word "Anthrax." It was sent through the mail during the height of the anthrax scare.

The Columbia exhibit features 47 artists from 11 countries and depicts powerful religious and political leaders worldwide on mock postage stamps. One, called "Citizen John Ashcroft," shows Ashcroft's face fashioned from images of naked bodies at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Another piece -- "I saw it in a movie starring Steven Segal" -- shows a series of images of an airplane nearing, then crashing into the Sears Tower, and ends with the Chicago skyline without the skyscraper.

A Secret Service agent called the gallery again Friday, asking for contact information for Al Brandtner, a Chicago artist who created the Bush piece, Brown said. Brandtner could not be reached for comment.

[vpintheak]

Flippin' scumbags. That's all I can nicely say.

[zarf]

If I created a "Kill Hillary-Save America from that evil cu*t" T-shirt--would Cafe Press have problem with that?

[concerned about politics]

The investigation began after authorities received a call from a Chicago resident.

An upright citizen speaks up. Good for him/her.

Think about it. Our tax dollars are being spent on the Endowment for the Arts so these jerks can "create" their radical liberal trash and call it art!

[OESY]

More:



Michael Hernandez deLuna, curator of an art exhibit at Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery titled 'Axis of Evil, the Secret History of Sin' talks about some of the more controversial pieces in the show Tuesday, April, 12, 2005, in Chicago. The exhibit captured the attention of the Secret Service who sent agents to inspect some of the works last week according to gallery officials. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)



Micki Levanthal, a spokesperson for Columbia College holds a piece called 'Citizen Ashcroft' from an art exhibit at the school's Glass Curtain Gallery Titled 'Axis of Evil, the Secret History of Sin' Tuesday, April, 12, 2005, in Chicago. The exhibit captured the attention of the Secret Service who sent agents to inspect some of the works last week according to gallery officials. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)



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[OESY]

What do these loonies find attractive about undercutting our efforts to spread democracy through the Middle East?

[shhrubbery!]

"Michael Hernandez deLuna, curator of an art exhibit at Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery titled 'Axis of Evil, the Secret History of Sin'

So that's what the grown-up child of Tiny Tim and Woody Allen looks like.

[Dominick]

"We need to ensure, as best we can, that this is nothing more than artwork with a political statement," Mazur said.

Assassination is not a political statement.

[txrangerette]

The message is that the President should be shot. That is not a political message, just as you say. It is urging a murder(still a crime, I believe) against one man, and against the whole of America. A pretty bright line between the two, I would say. Go, Secret Service!

[freebilly]

The exhibit's curator, Michael Hernandez de Luna, said the inquiry "frightens" him.

But advocating the assassination of a President is just a-ok with this @-hole....

[nw_arizona_granny]

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