A four-minute excerpt of David Wojnarowicz’s “A Fire in My Belly” was recently removed from the Smithsonian after complaints from the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue and Republican Congressmen John Boehner and Eric Cantor. The culture wars are back, baby!
For more on the controversy, read “Ants on Jesus (and a Penis) in ‘A Fire in My Belly.’”
I was at the MOCA last weekend, and I watched a couple guys on a cherry-picker painting a mural of coffins covered in dollar bills. Little did I know one of those guys was probably Blu, the famous Italian street artist. I also had no idea the mural would be painted over before it even had its formal unveiling. No one predicted that, least of all the artist, who apparently was not pleased.
These signs are all over Interstate 5 between Los Angeles and Sacramento. I’d love to hear about the committee decision to go back later and add the second sign on top. Were people not getting the message before?
