Posted on 4/13/2005, 4:22:26 AM by MisterRepublican
CHICAGO - The Secret Service sent agents to investigate a college art gallery exhibit of mock postage stamps, one depicting President Bush with a gun pointed at his head.
The exhibit, called "Axis of Evil: The Secret History of Sin," opened last week at Columbia College in Chicago. It features stamps designed by 47 artists addressing issues such as the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal, racism and the war in Iraq.
None of the artists is tied to the college.
Secret Service spokesman Tom Mazur would not say Tuesday whether the inquiry had been completed or whom the Secret Service had interviewed, but he said no artwork had been confiscated.
The investigation began after authorities received a call from a Chicago resident.
"We need to ensure, as best we can, that this is nothing more than artwork with a political statement," Mazur said.
Two federal agents arrived at the exhibit's opening night Thursday, took photos of some of the works and asked for the artists' contact information, said CarolAnn Brown, the gallery's director.
Brown said the agents were most interested in Chicago artist Al Brandtner's work titled "Patriot Act," which depicted a sheet of mock 37-cent red, white and blue stamps showing a revolver pointed at Bush's head.
Brandtner did not return a call to his design studio Tuesday.
The exhibit's curator, Michael Hernandez de Luna, said the inquiry "frightens" him.
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I hope they fear in their sleep, those little artsy bi*ches.
Michael how do you think the Secret Service feels? It's their job to protect the President.
PATHETIC twits.
Add this to it...
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/browse/Ntt-kill%20bush_pp-_N-0_pv-Kill~Bush.10411556_No-1_Ntk-All_D-kill%20bush_Nao-1_p-2
I bet they'll have trouble boarding airplanes the rest of their lives.
More AP incompetence on guns? Thats not a revolver...
Curator in previous controversy ..this is why (will paste the important part)
"They just want to make sure it isn't something more than a statement," Brown said.
This isn't the first time Hernandez has had a brush with the feds over a fake stamp. In 2001, authorities said they suspected he was behind a bogus stamp that bore a black skull and crossbones and the word "Anthrax." It was sent through the mail during the height of the anthrax scare.
The Columbia exhibit features 47 artists from 11 countries and depicts powerful religious and political leaders worldwide on mock postage stamps. One, called "Citizen John Ashcroft," shows Ashcroft's face fashioned from images of naked bodies at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Another piece -- "I saw it in a movie starring Steven Segal" -- shows a series of images of an airplane nearing, then crashing into the Sears Tower, and ends with the Chicago skyline without the skyscraper.
A Secret Service agent called the gallery again Friday, asking for contact information for Al Brandtner, a Chicago artist who created the Bush piece, Brown said. Brandtner could not be reached for comment.
Flippin' scumbags. That's all I can nicely say.
If I created a "Kill Hillary-Save America from that evil cu*t" T-shirt--would Cafe Press have problem with that?
An upright citizen speaks up. Good for him/her.
Think about it. Our tax dollars are being spent on the Endowment for the Arts so these jerks can "create" their radical liberal trash and call it art!
What do these loonies find attractive about undercutting our efforts to spread democracy through the Middle East?
"Michael Hernandez deLuna, curator of an art exhibit at Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery titled 'Axis of Evil, the Secret History of Sin'So that's what the grown-up child of Tiny Tim and Woody Allen looks like.
The message is that the President should be shot. That is not a political message, just as you say. It is urging a murder(still a crime, I believe) against one man, and against the whole of America. A pretty bright line between the two, I would say. Go, Secret Service!
But advocating the assassination of a President is just a-ok with this @-hole....
Ping
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