Gallery Owner Attacked for Iraq Abuse Art

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040530/ap_on_re_us/prisoner_abuse_painting&cid=519&ncid=1480

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The assault outside the Capobianco gallery in the city's North Beach district Thursday night was the worst in a string of verbal and physical attacks directed at Lori Haigh since the artwork was installed at her gallery on May 16.

San Francisco police are investigating and have stepped up patrols around the gallery. But Haigh decided to close the gallery indefinitely, citing concern for the safety of her two children, ages 14 and 4, who often accompanied her to work.

Guy Colwell's painting, titled "Abuse," depicts three U.S. soldiers leering at a group of naked men in hoods with wires connected to their bodies. The one in the foreground has a blood-spattered American flag patch on his uniform. In the background, a soldier in sunglasses guards a blindfolded woman.

The painting was part of a show of the Berkeley artist's work that mostly featured pastel-colored abstracts.



eLori Haigh, a North Beach district gallery owner, bears a painful reminder of the nation's unresolved anguish over the incidents at Abu Ghraib - a black eye delivered by an unknown assailant who apparently objected to the painting that depicts US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners, San Francisco, Calif., May 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

That's frightening that it would happen here. :scared:

:(

In my 31 years, I've never seen this country so divided and people so angry with each other over their political viewpoint. This attack is obscene.

I think it would be a strong statement of protest, not unlike what PETA often does.
But then again, my wife says that my ideas about how far I can push my commentary are sometimes out of whack.

so if you don't like images of abuse, you should abuse the one who shows the images. that makes sense. :eyes:
sick.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=590925