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An exhibit at the main branch of the New York Public Library is drawing outrage from Republicans because some of the work on display depicts former and current members of the Bush administration posing for fake mug shots. Each official in the visionary series, called “Line Up”, is seen holding a slate with a date of arrest corresponding to a date when the official said something about Iraq that was not “reality-based.” Matthew Walter, director of communications for the state GOP, told the Daily News:
It is simply inappropriate to have political attack art, in the form of egregious doctored photographs of the President and other high-ranking officials who have dedicated their lives to public service, in a taxpayer-funded building frequented by schoolchildren and the general public.
No wonder conservatives are always ready to cut budgets for libraries – they’ve become places where an innocent schoolchild’s allegiance to public servants like George Bush and Karl Rove can be egregiously corrupted. Of course, it’s important to note that “Line Up”, by artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, is part of a much larger exhibit called “Multiple Interpretations: Contemporary Prints in Portfolio”, which includes prints from 23 different artists on a wide variety of themes. Among them are artists like Olafur Eliasson, who is the subject of an upcoming retrospective at MoMA, as well Ernesto Caivano, whose decidedly apolitical "Knight Interlude" consists of twelve prints depicting a knight transforming into a tree.
Herb Scher, the director of public relations for the NYPL, spoke with Gothamist and stressed that "the library collects work from a wide range of political satire going back centuries. This work fits into that tradition of caricature. At the NYPL we document what is happening in the culture and political satire is important to have in our collections to document for future scholars."
Nevertheless, we can expect the mug shots controversy to spread and are counting the minutes until Giuliani starts reliving his “Sensation” glory days by chiming in. What do you think – should the city slash the NYPL’s funding and burn all the art books or just let the liberals enjoy their ineffectual little fantasy at taxpayers’ expense?
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That's brilliant! Where can I get the poster?
anything with the first amendment behind it is controversy... !!! i'll take a crate!
The truth hurts.
I personally want to see the real mug shots of these criminals.
But it seems that won't happen. No one has the sack to prosecute these lying criminals.
I'm still waiting for the brave rebels of the NYPL to do something to publicize El Presidente Castro's imprisonment of dissident librarians.
...and still waiting....
God bless the art world! Love it!
Does anybody who would actually be offended by that even USE a library?
Does anybody who would actually be offended by that even USE a library?
TSOL: Why don't you take the time and effort to develop an artistic skill, make some provocative and satirical art about Castro imprisoning librarians, and then maybe the NYPL will put it up? That would beat sitting around waiting, right? Go on, don't just complain, do something!
Too bad it's only fantasy. I'd pay good money to put those crooks in jail.
There are so many photos they could have used during the last administration. Including a mug shot of my "boy" for lying under oath.
It's unfortunate the NYPL, a place of all the people of this city, has chosen to take this route.
Oh well, perhaps the next Monica will show up during the Mrs' administration.
but, #10, how many people have been senselessly killed as a result of bill getting blow jobs from an intern? now, how many have been killed senseelessly due to a unilateral military invasion that has gone nowhere?
big difference, huh??!!!
Not to mention the basic mood around the world was "You're trying to impeach Clinton for what? You Americans are such silly prudes." They've since gone from thinking we're silly to hating us as homicidal, egotistical would-be empire builders. I think I preferred the former. And how many hundreds of billions of dollars did Monica cost us?
Hmmm. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.
And the reason why nothing was done? Oh, yeah, that's right. Let's pass around the cigars, it's the boy...Boy Clinton.
Let's face it guys. If Bubba had been on the job, instead of GETTING "the job", we wouldn't be in the situation we're in today. OBL would have been given up by the Sudanese, and would have been long gone by 9/11/01.
Instead, he was busy.
93 world trade center bombers, in jail, uss cole was at the end of his term, maybe you should pull the cigar out of your ass and stop blaming Clinton for the clusterfuck that Bushie has us in
whatEVER, #10/13/14......
bush remains the only one who actually committed crimes for which he deserves more than a mug shot.
over and out!
And that whole Sudanese OBL connection is thin at best. But hey, OBL can't be such a big problem, Bushie doesn't think about him all that much.
#15 Aw, is that any way to talk to a lady?
#16 "Over and out!" As Monica said, to Bubba after the cigar, "you'll be sorely missed."
on the other hand, maybe if Bush did pay some "extra" attention to his interns, he wouldn't need to send 4,000 kids to the slaughter to prove to his pappy that he's a REAL man.
Just curious...why do all you "guys" have the same avatar. Lack of imagination?
To paraphrase an old TV theme song:
"They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike --
You can lose your mind,
When Liberals are eight of a kind."
I pay a considerable amount in taxes that support the library as an institution. I also love library. I use the library branch near my apartment at least weekly. Libraries are a unifying and edifying force in any civilized society.
The above outlined action typifies the self absorption of today's political landscape. Library officials should asks themselves whether they have the right to use their space to endorse a political view. Partisan hackery on the public dime is deplorable regardless of its persuasion.
"Library officials should asks [sic] themselves whether they have the right to use their space to endorse a political view."
Or they should ask the tax payers who fund it, no? I'd support it completely.
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You know,Moneda, people who point out minor spelling mistakes in a candid forum post get double avian flu and die by crapping their organs out of their eye sockets.
That, and favoring a majority with public money is not a good idea. It's actually called 'boss politics' and went out of fashion about one hundred years ago. . . except in New Jersey.
Wow, Clinton's 8 years out of office and yet the same old stale tales are rehashed after seven years of horrendous rule by a bunch of liars. Excellent.
Re: the avatars... more like it's the default pic for people who haven't uploaded a pic. Nothing to do with liberalism one bit. But then again, I've been subjected to GOPers making stuff up for awhile now. You guys just pull anything out of thin air, eh?
I would prefer a more Mel Gibson type mug shot of the Presidummie. Also if he could be ranting about how the Jews hid all the WMD in Iraq it would be a nice touch.
One can only hope he is as far off the wagon as he off the mark.
to the editor who calls this an 'ineffectual little fantasy' - this is what YOU the MEDIA should be doing - informing the public when our govt officials commit crimes not BELITTLING people who actually have something to say that doesnt involve celebrities or shopping
Isn't it great when art depicts what should be reality.
#11 ptwnbkr, if you ask Catholics many unborn children were killed senselessly because of that blow job.... if you ask WASP's, nobody was killed that didn't need to be under Bush but that blow job was immoral.
"I'm still waiting for the brave rebels of the NYPL to do something to publicize El Presidente Castro's imprisonment of dissident librarians."
Absolutely. The NYPL supports the jihadis who would cut libs heads off first.
How about they post Sandy Berger's mugshot for stealing & destroying clinton's national security documents?
And lets see Ted Kennedy's pic after he let a woman drown in his car.
And why don't they show the Mohamhead cartoons?
NYPL = cowards.
(sigh)
The Nut Jobs are really out in this thread.
Could it just be that the Mug Shots simply refer to Current Events?
There's a shocking thought...
"Could it just be that the Mug Shots simply refer to Current Events?"
"Current Events" if you live in fantasy land.
Here's a hint, Bush hasn't been arrested for trying to do what Clinton promised to do... here's some more - feel free to copy and paste them into your favorite dnc/chicomm-shill search engines and VERIFY THE FACTS.
Amazing that some people are more concerned with whining about President Bush than opposing jihadis who promise to cut their heads off.
It's not actually a public library, not that anyone knows that. It's supported almost entirely by private dollars. It is in every single way, other than name, a private library. School children, for better or worse, are almost never in that building. And while the general public is allowed in, their rules are the same as nearly every other private library in the city which is that you can come in but you better have a good reason to touch our expensive shit.
The research libraries, ie "the main branch" and the branch, neighborhood libraries are still presently two almost entirely different entities with completely separate funding mechanisms.
A true artist trying to create controversy would put a picture of Muhammed as a mug shot- that would really test the gall of this artist, as well as free speech.