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IPW has started a new gallery featuring poster-style artwork by our artist, Linda Eddy As with our political cartoons, we'd like to see these used to promote conservative causes. Please use the artwork for noncommercial purposes only.[NOTE: a photo of this young Afghanistan girl is posted on a thread on Free Republic]

Judge halts City Light spending for public art By Bob Young Seattle Times staff reporter STEVE RINGMAN / THE SEATTLE TIMES A colored-light art installation reflects in a pool outside McCaw Hall. The city argued that the low-voltage lighting promoted conservation, justifying City Light funding. What does a $100,000 artwork hanging at Seattle's new opera house have to do with City Light, which paid for it? Not enough, according to a King County Superior Court judge, who ruled that the municipal utility should no longer pay for art that isn't closely tied to its mission of furnishing electricity. Judge Sharon...

OSLO - A Norwegian art gallery removed a painting Friday from its exhibition "Anti-Semite in the Name of God," saying it had infuriated Jews, including a Holocaust survivor. The painting, by Norwegian artist Chris Reddy, includes the text "Israel" and "USA," with each "S" replaced by a Nazi Swastika. Andreas Engelstad, owner of the Galleri A Minor in Oslo, said the Israeli Embassy demanded that the painting be removed, but that it was the reaction of other Jews that prompted his decision. "I took it down not because of the Embassy, but out of respect for victims of the Holocaust,"...

Rosie O' Donnell is turning her 'talents' to the canvas.The former talk show host is selling some paintings-some inspired by September 11, 2001-online and giving the proceeds to charity.The Scoop is not an art critic and thus will not comment..

Images of some of the paintings from Saddam Hussein's fantasy art collection, found at one of his safe houses in Baghdad 1 of 6          2 of 6          3 of 6          4 of 6          5 of 6          6 of 6    

<p>With "Cupid's Span," the monumental new outdoor sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, San Francisco may have begun to reverse its embarrassing record on choices of art in public places.</p> <p>The 60-foot-high painted fiberglass and stainless-steel sculpture represents a bow and arrow -- traditional attributes of the imp of love -- shooting straight down into a sliver of pedestrian park that borders the Embarcadero, opposite the end of Folsom Street.</p>

Some Say Work Is Racist MARBLEHEAD, Mass. -- This week's opening of a new, multimillion-dollar high school in Marblehead has been overshadowed by a work of art that greets visitors and students. NewsCenter 5's Rhondella Richardson reported that the sculpture is supposed to depict Joseph Brown, a local black man who fought in the Revolutionary War. But critics said it presents a racist image. "[Students] think it's racist," Metco director Elaine Munn said. "Other students have said, 'It looks like a monkey, and we are not monkeys. We did not come out of trees.' Other students have said that it's...

<p>ITHACA -- An Ithaca artist whose public work was vandalized in November saw another piece damaged Saturday at the Ithaca Festival and then became accused himself on Sunday of harassing a Festival worker.</p> <p>Bill Keokosky, whose work "September 12th" was defaced with a swear word, a phrase Ithaca police described as anti-American, and other political propaganda in November in DeWitt Park, said artwork he created for the Ithaca Festival was damaged on Saturday.</p>

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