Word: mural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...series of paintings and sculptures titled Made in Heaven. They depict Koons having various forms of sex with his wife Ilona Staller, the Italian porn star-politician who rose to fame under the name Cicciolina. The results range in size from small glass figurines to a photo-based mural. The centerpiece is an over-life-size carving of Cicciolina and her swain in rapture, like Adam and Eve, with a giant python curled around their plinth. As pornography, these works are inefficiently winsome; as art, wholly inert beneath their gaudiness...
...black patrolman observes, "it's all about survival here." Across the street from the school is a graveyard, its iron fence mangled where a sixth-grader crashed a car he had hot-wired. Near an outside corner of the school is "the penthouse," where at night, under a mural of the U.S. flag and the words WE WANT A DRUG-FREE AMERICA, the crackhead prostitutes of Alabama Avenue sell themselves for $2 or $3. Every morning the school custodians splash bleach against the doorways to wash away the stench of urine. Behind the building are the projects -- public housing...
More than 35 people gathered at the Peabody Museum yesterday to create a mural featuring colorful Native American designs and heighten awareness of what Columbus Day means to Native Americans...
...participants, many of whom were graduate students, encouraged passers-by throughout the afternoon to contribute to the mural. Perley, a Native American, said he hopes the mural will eventually be on display inside the museum...
SOME MIGHT shout censorship. But would the elimination of the bell-ringing be an instance of a community rising up against art, as North Carolina Sen. Jesse A. Helms rises up against nearly everything? Some may wonder: What will be targeted next, the mural in Leverett House dining hall...