Posted on 04/12/2005 8:36:34 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Former first lady-wannabe Teresa Heinz has donated $4 million to a Pittsburgh museum that frequently showcases artwork depicting U.S. human rights abuses - including exhibits on lynchings in America, the Rodney King beating and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
Heinz Kerry "surprised" the director and staff of the Andy Warhol Museum Saturday night with news of her contribution, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The gift, the third largest in the museum's history, was approved in advance by the directors of the Howard Heinz Endowment, so it could be announced ahead of the foundation's normal grant-making in May, the paper said.
The Warhol Museum's Abu Ghraib exhibit, titled "Inconvenient Evidence," prompted howls of protest from veterans groups when it opened last September.
"It is a disservice to all the veterans who served," complained Joseph Dugan, president of the Soldiers & Sailors National Military Museum & Memorial. Dugan added that he thought the exhibition's concept was "appalling."
"[The Abu Ghraib photos] should not be used as an art exhibit," he insisted.
Over the weekend, however, Mrs. Heinz praised the Warhol for taking on controversial topics. "That has been the magic of this museum. It has taken on subjects and exhibits that more conventional institutions would never dare to," she explained at a gala dinner for the Warhol.
In 2001, the controversial museum opened an exhibit titled "Without Sanctuary," a series of horrific photographs that showed lynchings in America.
"What made that exhibit so successful." Heinz Kerry said, was that "people left not just provoked or saddened, but also more thoughtful, and perhaps even wiser. That is the hallmark of a great institution, and of great art."
When it opened in May 1994, the Warhol received a $5 million grant from the Vira Heinz Endowment and the Howard Heinz Endowment, which are chaired by Mrs. Heinz.
I continue to put forth my thesis --- LIBERALISM is a disease of the mind that, in most cases, is terminal, and is closely linked to lunacy.
I don't know which one would have solied the White House more, sKerry or the missus.
The Andy Warhol museum is cool.
soiled, that is.
We never did get to see her complete tax returns, or his complete military records, I believe.
Art is what you like. Personally, a photo of Rodney King getting beat up doesn't do much for me, but I can see why some folks might like it.
So, now Teh=RAY=zah is also an art critic? How outre.
Thank God her husband lost the election.
Come to think of it, perhaps we should stop posting articles about Teh=RAY=zah?
And she came thiscloose to being the first lady?
(shudder)
And how ironic is it that Teresa Heinz gives her late husband's money to a museum for a guy who got "famous" for copying Campbell Soup lables.
This is another thing that Teresa Heinz Kerry.
A lot of hard-earned money, made through many years of hawking catsup,
mustard, and pickles has fallen into the hands of two people who despise
successful entrepreneurship and who believe in the confiscatory
redistribution of wealth.
Just one example: ... between 1995-2001 she gave
more than $4 million to an organization called the Tides Foundation.
And what does the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money?
They support numerous antiwar groups, including Ramsey Clark's
International Action Center. ...
They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the Tides
Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. ...
They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders
are known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.
They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist front
during the Cold War era. ...
They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic group whose
primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and
Texas to Mexico.
These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the
anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of our
would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John Heinz,
ping
So Anti Americanism is cool. WOW, what insight. /Sarcasm off
Of course, you'd never see a painting of Rodney attacking the Cops.
It was not Teresa Heinz who sought to be first lady; that lady was Teresa Heinz Kerry.
I saw the lynching exhibit at the Warhol Museum, and I was thereby enlightened: In all the years of lynching, fewer blacks were killed than in a single year or two of inner-city drug murders.
History belongs to those who write it.
The universities are controlled by the left.
The history departments are controlled by the left.
The left only allows left wing sources for purposes of writing history papers.
The left only allows left wing perspectives to be used as credible.
(even AD is a thought crime in favor of ACE. piss-em off say ACE stands for After Christ birth Era)
We have to figure how to adress this or the only way to purge this manure is to plow their books next to the Atari 2600 ET the extraterrestrial videogames in the dessert
My human rights were violated for 10 months last year. From feb.-nov. I could not watch any tv without seeing her or her husbands' face on tv. :)
LOL - I should send my medical bills to them!
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