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Four Walls Gallery present:
Collecting Dust & Other Things
14 Interviews from artists and professionals living and working in the San Diego arts community. Collected into one volume, they demonstrate the diversity, methodologies, opinions and individuality of its cultural ambassadors and the growing artistic scene.
Featuring: Patricia Frischer, Kevin Freitas, Michelle Robinson, Monica Hoover, Hugh Davies, David White, Kinsee Morlan, Emily Fierer, Lea Caughlan, Carly Delso-Saavedra, Betti-Sue Hertz, Larry Caveney, Doug Simay, and Luis De Jesus.
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4,342 and counting. "The way forward?" you bet! *
Well, the total number of deaths in Iraq of US soldiers has now reached the Magic Number of 2,973 and surpassed it. Which is as you recall, the total number of deaths from 9/11. Actual military deaths of coalition forces in Iraq to date: 4,659 coalition deaths -- 4,342 Americans, two Australians, one Azerbaijani, 179 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Czech, seven Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, five Georgians, one Hungarian, 33 Italians, one Kazakh, one South Korean, three Latvians, 22 Poles, three Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians. There are presently 31,495 wounded US soldiers. 822 US military deaths in Afghanistan have been reported so far. When will this stop?
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Frank Romero Sues Caltrans for Painting over Mural
06.01.09
from the Artforum website
Noted muralist Frank Romero is suing California’s Department of Transportation, Caltrans, for painting over a mural he created along the Hollywood Freeway downtown in conjunction with the 1984 Olympics, according to the Los Angeles Times. Romero’s suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, contends that sometime after June 1, 2007, a Caltrans work crew painted over his 102-foot-long, twenty-foot-high mural, Going to the Olympics, erasing it from a wall at Alameda Street. The episode took place, the suit says, without Romero having been given the advance notice required under a 1980 state law protecting artists’ “moral rights.” The notice provides ninety days for the artist to save or relocate works of public art before a building’s owner can have them removed.
Romero, who could not be reached Friday, is seeking a court order to have the mural restored and then maintained at the transportation department’s expense. If restoration is not possible, he wants the mural removed to another, presumably safer spot. The suit also asks for restitution and damages, including punitive damages that, under state law, the judge would award to a nonprofit fine-arts organization.
Patrick Chandler, spokesman for Caltrans District 7, which includes Los Angeles County, said Friday that he could not comment. Last year, muralist Kent Twitchell won a $1.1 million settlement against the US government and others for painting over his portrait of fellow artist Ed Ruscha on a federally owned building in downtown LA.
photo: Felix Clay
Day of the dead
Amid the controversy surrounding the Sotheby's auction, Robert Hughes explains why he has taken a stand against Damien Hirst's 'simple-minded' works, and an art world where prices bear no relation to talent
from the guardian.co.uk and Robert Hughes
"By now, with the enormous hype that has been spun around it, there probably isn't an earthworm between John O'Groats and Land's End that hasn't heard about the auction of Damien Hirst's work at Sotheby's on Monday and Tuesday - the special character of the event being that the artist is offering the work directly for sale, not through a dealer. This, of course, is persiflage." more...
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