Police Harass Artist for Painting a Bank on Fire

[Jimmie Higgins]

HAHAHA! Who said there wasn't any taboos left in art? Who said art can't be provocative?

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/28/local/la-me-bank-painting-20110828

100 years ago artists got in trouble for painting blasphemous images... I guess banks are the new gods.

[Jimmie Higgins]

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[Commissar Rykov]

He just needs to add some burning Bankers running around and its a masterpiece. I laughed at how amazing it looked on fire I never thought I would love a picture of a bank. I am glad to be proven wrong.

[danyboy27]

i like this painting.

this whole story is verry telling about the position of money within the power structures in society.

if the guy would have made a painting of a liquor store or a bar burning, nobody would have called the cops.

[Veovis]

I like the sign behind the cops: "Don't let your boss rob you."

I guess it's ok if the banks do it, though. :rolleyes:

[00000000000]

Fucking hate it when art / artists are supressed by dumb reactionary thinking.

Not making a direct comparison, but years ago I was doing a training course at work and in the notepad I drew (badly) a building with some TNT in the basement (i'd recently watched Fight Club and was bored).
They hauled me in front of a disciplinary hearing and were ready to sack me because of my inappropriate behaviour and because I might be unhinged / a terrorist.

It's just a picture of a building on fire...you see worse in news bulletins