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professor skisurf Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 09:36 PM
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New York Art Shuttered After Bush Monkey Portrait
This is just too funny (and scary) on so many levels...

By Larry Fine

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A portrait of President Bush (news - web sites) using monkeys to form his image led to the closure of a New York art exhibition over the weekend and anguished protests on Monday over freedom of expression.

"Bush Monkeys," a small acrylic on canvas by Chris Savido, created the stir at the Chelsea Market public space, leading the market's managers to close down the 60-piece show that was scheduled to stay up for the next month.

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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 09:38 PM
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1. Please provide a link
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 09:42 PM
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3. Here' NYT Link
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/13/nyregion/13art.html
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 09:50 PM
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5. Thanks!
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bluedeminredstate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 09:40 PM
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2. Ah, the whiff of Stalinism
Who'da thunk it in the US of A?
:shrug:
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Brucey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 09:44 PM
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4. Apparently repugs think that art is
powerful. I wish they were right.
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Hanover_Fist Donating Member (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 09:50 PM
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6. Savido's a piker
Edited on Mon Dec-13-04 09:53 PM by Hanover_Fist
Why didn't he use monkey poop? I think the medium has been vastly ignored. Rumsfeld could be done in bat guano, Rove in pig shit, imagine the possibilities................
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mia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 09:51 PM
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7. Here's the art
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 11:22 AM
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44. Go here for the "close-up"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1068654#1068660
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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 09:53 PM
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8. OT: Wasn't Larry Fine one of the Three Stooges?
Larry, I believe.
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 10:51 PM
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18. Yes. Fitting that he writes about a portrait of the biggest stooge...
...of them all.;)
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 09:53 PM
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9. And yet this man could be continuously characterized as a "monkey". . .
during a far more horrific, far more critical war, and never once give it recognition, let alone try to stop it. . .




Sadly, in comparison to Mr Lincoln, we are governed now by pygmies, in far more ways than simple stature. . .
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 10:01 PM
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10. Lincoln locked up a lot of reporters. nt.
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wildwww2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 10:12 PM
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12. The reporters seem to commit suicide for Bu$h da Chimp.
What few there are in this fascist country of ours.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 10:28 PM
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14. True. nt.
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Dancing_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 10:08 PM
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11. I hope Chris Savido becomes rich and famous in NYC!
Looks like he's made quite a splash already!:yourock:
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tandot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 10:23 PM
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13. Bush is a monkey...here is the proof:
http://www.funtoosh.com/new_timepass/real_bush.php

We have Freedom of Speech only for Republicans or people who don't say anything negative about Bush or his administration. Just like in Nazi Germany. The only thing that is missing is the killing of millions of innocent people ... but we are heading toward it pretty fast ...
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Karenca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 11:55 PM
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26. Don't insult the monkies :)) nt
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Amigust Donating Member (568 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 10:30 PM
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15. Good concept, good publicity,
Instant $ appreciation. Chris, don't let it go too cheap.
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 10:31 PM
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16. If a painting had come out in 1999 of Clinton made with tiny Monicas...
...would any gallery or public showing, in NYC or anywhere, have SHUT DOWN COMPLETELY to avoid showing it? Would people have been up in arms over it? Would it even have made the news for more than a brief mention in the arts/entertainment section?

"...The exhibit featured political art, such as Joe Rayakszunari's small acrylic on canvas Clinton's Monicas..."

Fascinating little thought experiment, isn't it?
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 11:03 PM
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23. No, Dissent is patriotic when it's towards a Democrat (NT)
NT
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The Sheik Donating Member (349 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 10:43 PM
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17. If stuff like this is happening in New York...
the downturn of the Second Term Repub president (which usually bad) is really starting.
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dw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 10:58 PM
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19. How about this portrait?
A mosaic of soldiers who have died in Iraq:



http://photomatt.net/2004/04/07/mosaic/
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 03:55 AM
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33. Seen the other Bush Mosaic?
http://www.artofresistance.org/bush_mosaic/
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Flammable Materials Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 11:00 PM
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20. The Nazis called it "Degenerate Art"
http://stevenlehrer.com/degenerate_art.htm
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 11:10 PM
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24. It's not the art that's degenerate here.
Edited on Mon Dec-13-04 11:11 PM by NewYorkerfromMass
The Hitler/Nazi strictures were about dehumanizing a race- this is simply deifying an asshole who happens to be president.
It's also about the "big boxing" and sanitizing of this once great city.
I am frankly quite sick of these Bush worshipping assholes.
Sick to death of them.
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pinkpops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 11:00 PM
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21. Is this the Chelsea Market Website?
http://www.chelseamarket.com
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Osamasux Donating Member (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 12:15 AM
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29. Yes, it certainly is.
It looks like they've taken down the events calendar.

Chelsea Market is a converted pier on the Hudson River. Chelsea is the area north of the West Village. This is historically a very progressive part of town. They can be made to financially regret this decision.
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Laughing Mirror Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 04:56 AM
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36. Actually Chelsea Market is a converted Nabisco factory
and is a block or two in from the Hudson River. I think you're confusing Chelsea Market with Chelsea Pier, sporting complex, which is built out on a pier on the Hudson.
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Osamasux Donating Member (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:08 AM
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37. You're right
Edited on Tue Dec-14-04 09:08 AM by Osamasux
I stand corrected. Area demographics still apply.
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Osamasux Donating Member (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 12:29 AM
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30. Thanks, I just used their 'email us' link
and sent them a piece of my mind. (Unlike the Chimp, I had some I could spare.)

Note: I had to click on their logo to get to the home page and the email link. (It's a webform, not an email address.)
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 11:00 PM
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22. finally! art is dangerous again!
i wonder when rock and roll will get better?
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 10:27 AM
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41. Art is dangerous, unless it is to portrait the Nativity scene
We know the RW is also trying to banish science by peddling their Creationism in the public schools. Sometimes I think the US is becoming more like Inquisition Spain.
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 11:13 AM
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42. see fark today! mucho nativity!
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1252688
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Poppyseedman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 11:33 PM
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25. Whoa
That fact they shut down the place is very disturbing.

Bear one thing in mind, this is not the government closing them down, it's a business owner. It is the owners decision, a wrong one.

Personally, I find this type of art rather stupid.
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Dude_CalmDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 12:09 AM
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27. Well you have to understand...
...anything that has that fucking idiot in it is bound to have at least an element of stupidity to it.
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 04:41 AM
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35. Hi there again, Poppyseedman! If it is the owner's decision then
Edited on Tue Dec-14-04 04:46 AM by neweurope
maybe because he is scared of the government? Or paid off?

Frieds: Get out. The parallels to the German Nazis are more than obvious. It is getting worse literally day by day. They're moving fast. And so should you.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 12:13 AM
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28. Republicans want affirmation of their vote
Edited on Tue Dec-14-04 12:14 AM by Erika
or silence!

They can try all they want but they are not going to get either.
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Julius Civitatus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 12:31 AM
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31. This is FASCISM!!!
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PallasAthena Donating Member (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 02:04 AM
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32. Pass the Bananas
When I read this article in the NY Times today, I had to go over it several times just to make sure I was reading it correctly. They closed down their own show!! Even sadder than Giuliani condemning the poop Madonna or the aldermen in Chicago arresting (yes, really they did!) the picture of Mayor Harold Washington in women's underwear. It's the end of days.
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TiKiGoD Donating Member (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 04:32 AM
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34. Next Project should be...
He should make a chimp portrait out of little Bush images.
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Osamasux Donating Member (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:11 AM
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38. Anyone for Match Game?
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:55 AM
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39. Well bring 'em to Phoenix, I'll put em in my yard! I live on a busy
traffic corner! I'll even advertise, write signs on my car and freeway blog 'em!
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 10:25 AM
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40. We are becoming Stalinist Russia!
Any mockery of the Great Leader shall be punished and the artist banished to the Gulag.

A clever art poster is now considered dangerous and subversive!

:scared:
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 11:21 AM
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43. "Bush Monkeys," --great title for this piece of art
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