(coffins draped in dollar bills) MOCA Commissions Mural, Then Whitewashes It

MOCA Commissions Mural, Then Whitewashes It

A crew started whitewashing the Blu mural at about 10 a.m. Photo by Gary Leonard.

Artwork Painted Over Day Before Media Preview of New Show
by Ryan Vaillancourt, Staff Writer
Published: Thursday, December 9, 2010 2:22 PM PST

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – It seemed a novel idea: In advance of its recently announced April 2011 show on street art, the Museum of Contemporary Art offered one of its walls to a prominent street artist.


The artist, an Italian who goes by the name Blu, finished the work. This morning, the museum painted over it.

The paint was hardly dry on the mural, which covered the entire north-facing wall of MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary with depictions of wooden caskets draped in dollar bills, when the museum literally whitewashed the piece.

A MOCA spokeswoman would not comment on the whitewashing, but the piece may have struck a delicate nerve center that sits just steps from the wall. The piece faces the Veterans Administration healthcare building on Temple Street. The dollar bills draped on Blu’s caskets seem to be an overt replacement of the customary American flags that cover the coffins of soldiers killed in wartime.

more:
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2010/12/09/news/doc4d0149944bb44769770853.txt

God forbid, the Sheeple should get some pacifistic notions in their little skulls...

Are they sure that the complaint did not come from the flower shop next door. You know how much power these flower shops have nowadays. They rank right up there with Wall Street!

Speaking of Wall Street, I wonder how well they are doing with the extra bucks from the health insurance companies. With all of the higher premiums and not paying out on claims. Not to mention the cookie cutter medical care weez Americans are receiving in this day of age.

They are moral cowards. :(

should print it as well.