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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: C19fan

If you think this is bad wait until Odumbo invites rappers to White Houes state dinners or God forbid, resurrects the talentless poetess Maya Angelou who poems sound like a cross between wet farts and Al Sharpton sermons.


61 posted on 05/22/2009 2:30:11 PM PDT by Larry381 ("in the final instance civilization is always saved by a platoon of soldiers" Oswald Spengler)
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To: kcvl

That’s beautiful. Love de Stael.


62 posted on 05/22/2009 2:30:16 PM PDT by fullchroma (right-wing radical in pearls and lipstick)
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To: Woebama
It was a talk show and the guy said, “ The coming revolution in the US will wipe out 50% of the population” and that Europe would follow soon after with their own. Talked about the Bilderberg and how they need/want 1/3 of the worlds population wiped out.
63 posted on 05/22/2009 2:32:01 PM PDT by AirForceMom (Locked and loaded, and sharpening wooden stakes.)
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To: C19fan

64 posted on 05/22/2009 2:34:09 PM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: Dallas59

65 posted on 05/22/2009 2:34:36 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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To: C19fan

Anyone who’s ever been to the White House knows this is going to look like a pile of fresh, steaming horse pucky. Jackie Kennedy must be spinning in her grave. And all those people who donated priceless, irreplaceable, historically significant art to the White House Historical Association for display with the period furniture there are going to be mighty unhappy.


66 posted on 05/22/2009 2:39:37 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: AirForceMom

The thing that makes me interested in the Bilderbergs is the fact that the media did not report on them at all from the 1950’s through the 1990’s. Very wierd.


67 posted on 05/22/2009 2:39:46 PM PDT by Woebama (Paying for my neighbor's mortgage and Wall Street's bonuses sure is hard.)
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To: C19fan

Yet another sign that we got us a Southside Chicago pimp in da Whitehouse......


68 posted on 05/22/2009 2:42:23 PM PDT by Feckless (No Birth Certificate... No Peace)
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To: C19fan

I guess too many white guys were adorning the walls....


69 posted on 05/22/2009 2:43:28 PM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Woebama

Show mentioned that the targets are Britian, Canada and the US. Wrecking our economy.
Geezus, do I need a tinfoil hat??


70 posted on 05/22/2009 2:43:57 PM PDT by AirForceMom (Locked and loaded, and sharpening wooden stakes.)
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To: C19fan

IOW those dead white guys need not apply.


71 posted on 05/22/2009 2:44:55 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: C19fan

72 posted on 05/22/2009 2:46:16 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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To: C19fan

73 posted on 05/22/2009 2:46:54 PM PDT by Kukai
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To: Godwin1

So where will the great American paintings removed be? The basement?


74 posted on 05/22/2009 2:47:02 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Worse than we could have imagined.)
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To: C19fan

Imagine how much Obama hates looking at George Washington.


75 posted on 05/22/2009 2:47:50 PM PDT by donna (Gasoline usage: Demand dropped 9.6% in 2008; total decline from 2005 thru 2008 was 28%)
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To: luvbach1
So where will the great American paintings removed be? The basement?

Ebay.

76 posted on 05/22/2009 2:49:11 PM PDT by fullchroma (right-wing radical in pearls and lipstick)
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77 posted on 05/22/2009 2:50:04 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: C19fan
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78 posted on 05/22/2009 2:50:11 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse (Obama...the convergence of Affirmative Action and the Peter Principle)
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To: fullchroma

Are you kidding?!

That painting is awful!


79 posted on 05/22/2009 2:50:34 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Not kidding!


80 posted on 05/22/2009 2:53:14 PM PDT by fullchroma (right-wing radical in pearls and lipstick)
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