Pissed-Off Painters Take Revenge

[n2doc]

Early last December, Italian street artist Blu painted a mural for LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art. It was intended to accompany an upcoming exhibit called Art in the Streets. But, ostensibly because the work’s antiwar theme might be offensive to veterans, the museum painted over it within a day. In response, a contingent of (mostly anonymous) fellow artists took revenge, slapping up a poster that showed MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch as an ayatollah clutching a paint roller. Deitch should have known that wrathful daubers don’t take affronts lightly; after all, painters have been exacting revenge for more than 700 years.



http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/pl_art_revenge/

[bahrbearian]

1. Anti-war theme might be offensive to veterans?

[madrchsod]

2. you don`t screw with street artists......

[nykym]

3. I think it's Great

don't mess with artists! Also posted because we all use the same avatar. Keep on Truckin'

[Canuckistanian]

4. We all use the same avatar?

Hey, we do!

[marions ghost]

5. Erasure

Just wipe it out. Then we won't have to see anything uncomfortable.

Art is the place to put these expressions. This amounts to self-censorship.

[archiemo]

6. Isn't that Tom Arnold?

[mopinko]

7. offensive to donors, more likely.

probably big, big, big donors, since it only took a day, it was likely one or tow phone calls.
wonder who their fat donors are.