[rktman]

First amendment 101.

[PghBaldy]

Got a Windows Defender malware warning when I clicked on link. That is new for me on WND.

[lastchance]

The dispute probably came about because of the city’s sign ordinance. You want to become acquainted with nit-picking ordinance? Welcome to sign ordinances.

[SES1066]

So that we can see what is being talked about ...

More background from IJ; "Augie and Brian started Lonesome Dove 28 years ago. Over the years, the saloon has become a second home for cowboys and other locals searching for good music and good company. But Lonesome Dove was showing its age, and Augie and Brian wanted to give the place a facelift. So they paid one of their waitresses, also an artist, to paint over a Coors Light logo that had adorned the front of the building for over a decade. In its place, she painted a sun setting over the mountains, with a ranch and cowboys scattered across the landscape. Artistically rendered across the top of the mural are the words, “Lonesome Dove.” The mural brought in new customers and many compliments. Everyone seemed to like it.

Everyone but city officials, that is. Soon after the employee finished painting the mural, Augie and Brian received a notice of violation. According to the city, the mural lacked a “mural permit” and Lonesome Dove would have to pay to apply for one. Over the next five months, Lonesome Dove had to submit two separate permit applications for the mural and undergo three hearings. Ultimately, the city commission decided the mural was illegal under its mural regulations and ordered it removed by May 23. The city denied the permit because its guidelines state “no mural may be placed on the front of a building” and “no mural shall convey a commercial message.”

[samtheman]

I got a malware warning clicking on this link.

Either a fake warning, eliciting clicks, or a real warning from chrome.

Either way, I’m not clicking on this site again. I’ll just read the text posted here in FR.

[bigbob]

Get a building permit to add a glass-enclosed seating area. That would make it an interior mural (visible from the street however) and tell the city busybodies to GFY.

[poinq]

Ok, then its not a mural. It decoration of the building. Just redefine what it is, a sign, art, or building decoration. Stick to first amendment things. And look for other examples that are allowed to exist by the city.

[Paladin2]

[unixfox]

If they had painted a gay flag on the building it would have been crickets.

[pepsi_junkie]

Where I come from in the Northeast murals are like a warning label. They never put them in the burbs or the nice parts of the city, only in the high crime zones. Just sayin’.

[RegulatorCountry]

I like the mural, it actually has artistic merit. His employee has some talent. It’s got a very nice Thomas Hart Benton vibe, he of WPA fame during the Depression.

[Rebelbase]

"I hate stupid city ordinances. I won't tolerate them".

[DUMBGRUNT]

Mandan!

Some fun art news out of Mandan.
A nice watercolor.
Yes old news, but still fun.
https://mhsmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/48B05C12-1466-4CF3-A552-515716305141

“...York was Clark’s childhood companion. He was a slave. We know he was big. We know he was very athletic. He was a great dancer. He was devoted to William Clark. He was a great help to the expedition because he was such a curiosity. Indians who had seen white men had never seen a black man before and there’s the famous – is it Catlin or Charley Russell – and there’s the famous Charley Russell painting in the Mandan lodges of the Mandan chief trying to rub the black off of York’s skin. York had a great time on the expedition. He had, had his own rifle. He got to vote. He was a full member of the expedition. He had a, the Indians loved him, and the Indian women especially loved York and he took full advantage of that so that on many occasions York would be missing that night and he would be in the lodge with one of the Indians. Sometimes with the Indian husband standing guard while the business was completed.”

[MikelTackNailer]

A saloon mural is a large painting of a reclining nude woman affixed to the wall behind a bar where ordering sarsaparilla gets you a proper ass-whuppin’.