SubscribeEverything depends on executionMoney is NOT a legitimate cerative medium. (Money for expensive photograaphic prints of various sizes, for signs, for vitrines, for vinyl lettering, for renting the space. For paying the electric bill and hiring a professional photographer to 'record' the event...)
The art of making art...is putting it together!
"In the latest of a series of threats at St. Tammany Parish schools, a Mandeville High School student was arrested Monday after saying he was going to blow up the campus and kill the president of the United States, authorities said."*
"The U.S. Secret Service came into existence nearly 150 years ago, but the agency as it's known today was essentially created June 5, 1968 — the night Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Kennedy had several bodyguards with him, including football star Roosevelt 'Rosey' Grier, as he addressed a crowd gathered to support his bid for the White House. But there were no Secret Service agents present because before 1968, their services weren't afforded to presidential candidates.
That policy changed after Kennedy's assassination....
"[Police Commissioner Raymond W.] Kelly was also asked why the artist would be questioned at all. 'Why would we question him?' he responded. 'Well, we want to determine what his motives are. Obviously they could be interpreted as advocating harm to protectees; both of the senators, of course, are now being provided Secret Service protection, that’s why the Secret Service was interested; both of them are federal employees, so, ah, of course it is a concern to federal authorities as it is to ourselves. Our lawyers are researching it and will determine if there are any violations of law; right now he is being questioned.' ...Special Agent Eric P. Zahren, a spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, emphasized in a telephone interview that the agency did not seek to shut down the show.
'We did not shut down that exhibit or request that anybody else shut it down,' Agent Zahren said. 'This was brought to our attention, we went out there and had a conversation with the individual, but we did not shut it down.'
...Assassination has been the subject of many cultural products, including even a Stephen Sondheim musical, 'Assassins.' But in the post-9/11 context, recent comments touching on assassination during this political season — including references by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton — have hit a nerve, and have been followed by apologies.
The safety of Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee, has been an issue. When he was assigned Secret Service coverage in May 2007, it was the earliest point in a campaign that a candidate had been given protection. In February, Jeff Zeleny of The Times wrote a Political Memo on the 'hushed worry' on the minds of many Obama supporters; it mentioned how his wife, Michelle Obama, had voiced concerns about his safety.
'Checkpoint,' a 2004 novel by Nicholson Baker, purported to plumb the thoughts of a would-be presidential assassin. In 2006, a British digital-television station commissioned a 90-minute film, 'Death of a President,' about the aftermath of a fictional assassination of President Bush by a sniper."
Nonetheless, he said the Secret Service asked him if he would voluntarily take down the exhibition title from the window.(emphasis mine)
“I’m renting that space; the space was allocated for an exhibition and it’s my right to put those words up,” he said. “They said it could incite someone to do something crazy, like break the window. It’s terrible, because they’re violating my rights. If someone breaks a window, they’re committing a crime.”
Later, Mr. Arboleda, who is 27, said in an interview: “It’s art. It’s not supposed to be harmful. It’s about character assassination — about how Obama and Hillary have been portrayed by the media.” He added, “It’s about the media.”Going through the two websites highlighting his exhibit, I don't understand these statements. At what point has the media--and by media, I'm assuming the MSM; maybe that's not a valid assumption?--portrayed either candidate in any way even remotely resembling the way they're depicted in the exhibit? I'm pretty sure I would have noticed if e.g. a 17 foot long black cock made the rounds on CNN and FOX.
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Yeah, me neither.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 12:01 PM on June 4, 2008