Reply #70: Feds probe politically charged art exhibit (provacative image of Bush) [View All]

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pic at site-along with a poll


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7480455/

Feds probe politically charged art exhibit
Secret Service focuses interest on provocative image of Bush
BUSH

M. Spencer Green / AP
Secret Service agents scrutinized this piece at a Chicago gallery, part of an exhibit called "Axis of Evil, the Secret History of Sin."

The Associated Press
Updated: 8:38 p.m. ET April 12, 2005

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.

.....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 handgun pointed at Bush’s head........