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Changing the Art on the White House Walls
Wall Street Journal ^
| May 22, 2009
| Amy Chozick and Kelly Crow
Posted on 05/22/2009 1:50:39 PM PDT by C19fan
Barack Obama is taking on health care, financial regulation, torture and environmental policy. He’s also revamping the White House art collection.
The Obamas are sending ripples through the art world as they put the call out to museums, galleries and private collectors that they’d like to borrow modern art by African-American, Asian, Hispanic and female artists for the White House. In a sharp departure from the 19th-century still lifes, pastorals and portraits that dominate the White House’s public rooms, they are choosing bold, abstract art works.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; art; bho44; bhowhitehouse; obama
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To: ElayneJ
Is it common practice to send out requests to galleries and museums like this? Seems like they could purchase some pieces.
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With their bad taste......NOT with MY damned tax dollars!
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:13:09 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
To: woofie
How about art from us white guys?Forget it. You white guys had your turn, and now it's time for the weak and downtrodden to take over. Next. . . reparations.
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:13:13 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: C19fan
43
posted on
05/22/2009 2:14:20 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
To: C19fan
I knew it...he is the living “Head of State”!
Just like the movie.....wow...they did the same thing in the Movie took down Washington and put up Tu Pac and some basketball player.....unbelievable.
I hope he is gone in 2012
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:14:46 PM PDT
by
Texas4ever
(God is Good!)
To: C19fan
FUBO
I’m almost at my limit, listening to the BBC today via shortwave, talking about what’s coming in the US sealed it.
45
posted on
05/22/2009 2:16:22 PM PDT
by
AirForceMom
(Locked and loaded, and sharpening wooden stakes.)
To: Norman Bates
46
posted on
05/22/2009 2:16:31 PM PDT
by
PJBankard
(Americans love a winner, and will not tolerate a loser. -Gen. George Patton)
To: Electric Graffiti
47
posted on
05/22/2009 2:16:55 PM PDT
by
Electric Graffiti
(Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
To: freedumb2003
What about all those old white President’s portraits?
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:18:25 PM PDT
by
unkus
To: C19fan
On the one hand, the new stuff probably sticks out like a sore thumb in the traditional styled White House rooms.
On the other, my folks have an AA friend who is a talented artist and a whole lot more genteel than the Obamas. It would be cool if some of her work was displayed at the WH.
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:18:44 PM PDT
by
Cloverfarm
(Where are we going, and why are we in a hand-basket?)
To: C19fan
How about René Magritte's lesser know work:
Ce n'est pas un président!
(I tried to make a "HOPE"-style poster, but the poster creation page wouldn't take the whole phrase.)
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:19:04 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(No free man bows to a foreign king.)
To: AirForceMom
What did they say was coming in the US on the BBC?
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:20:20 PM PDT
by
Woebama
(Paying for my neighbor's mortgage and Wall Street's bonuses sure is hard.)
To: KarlInOhio
Hey bambi, it’s not your house. Keep your racist crap off our walls.
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:21:14 PM PDT
by
Texas resident
(Texan by birth and by choice.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:21:35 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: Winstons Julia
What? No Muslim art?Oxymoron. There is no Muslim art.
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:21:38 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: C19fan
Bookmark. This is gonna be a good one!
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:21:44 PM PDT
by
LucyJo
("Yep, son, we've met the enemy and he is us.")
To: Lancey Howard
Hey now, don’t be blaspheming the King. Elvis would not be happy.
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:22:22 PM PDT
by
Texas resident
(Texan by birth and by choice.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:26:40 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: C19fan
...they’d like to borrow modern art by African-American, Asian, Hispanic and female artists for the White House.I'm surprised Arab/Islamic artists aren't included.
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:27:12 PM PDT
by
fullchroma
(right-wing radical in pearls and lipstick)
To: C19fan
Hope they know it’s only temporary.
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:27:15 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/22/2009 2:28:19 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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