Group: ba.politics




Subject: Fernando Botero's Art Opening 1/29, 18:00 hrs UCB
From: Stan de SD
Date: 2/16/2007 9:34:00 PM
"Hal Womack 3-dan" <hal.womack@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1169879028.651806.268390@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... > Mon, Jan 29, 6:00 pm > > Fernando Botero's Art Opening > UC Berkeley, Room 190, Doe LibraryBerkeley > > Fernando Botero, the most famous living Latin American artist, will > display his Abu Ghraib paintings at the University of California, > Berkeley. These 47 paintings and drawings belong to a long tradition of > artistic statements against war and violence No "statement against war and violence" whatsoever - he's a hypocrite who is more concerned about the fact that a few out-of-control enlisted guys roughed up some inmates than the reality that those same inmates were terrorists who advocated killing people merely for not sharing their religious views.

Subject: Fernando Botero's Art Opening 1/29, 18:00 hrs UCB
From: Stan de SD
Date: 2/16/2007 9:34:00 PM
"Hal Womack 3-dan" <hal.womack@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1169879028.651806.268390@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... > Mon, Jan 29, 6:00 pm > > Fernando Botero's Art Opening > UC Berkeley, Room 190, Doe LibraryBerkeley > > Fernando Botero, the most famous living Latin American artist, will > display his Abu Ghraib paintings at the University of California, > Berkeley. These 47 paintings and drawings belong to a long tradition of > artistic statements against war and violence No "statement against war and violence" whatsoever - he's a hypocrite who is more concerned about the fact that a few out-of-control enlisted guys roughed up some inmates than the reality that those same inmates were terrorists who advocated killing people merely for not sharing their religious views.