Changing the Art on the White House Walls

Wall Street Journal ^ | May 22, 2009 | Amy Chozick and Kelly Crow

[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.

[Larry381]

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.

[fullchroma]

That’s beautiful. Love de Stael.

[AirForceMom]

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.

[paulycy]

[Dallas59]

[La Lydia]

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.

[Woebama]

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.

[Feckless]

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

[rightwingextremist1776]

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

[AirForceMom]

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

[longtermmemmory]

IOW those dead white guys need not apply.

[Dallas59]

[Kukai]

[luvbach1]

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

[donna]

Imagine how much Obama hates looking at George Washington.

[fullchroma]

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

Ebay.

[Electric Graffiti]

[Cuttnhorse]

[kcvl]

Are you kidding?!

That painting is awful!

[fullchroma]

Not kidding!