Word: muralitis
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...strong scent of cardamom and see the ultra-Orthodox Israeli men, in their black Homburg hats and long beards, scurrying home with their bags of vegetables. Then you spy the green-bereted Border Police, eyeing the noisy flow of customers from behind a barrier. And the once cheery mural now defaced with graffiti reading DEATH TO ARABS...
...report on the power struggles in Iraq included a photo of children playing in Sadr City in front of a mural that paired an image of an Abu Ghraib prisoner with that of the Statue of Liberty. That picture showed the true extent of the damage that has occurred. The very people who came to liberate the Iraqis have treated them in ways that are similar to Saddam Hussein's. It makes one wonder whether the American forces have overstayed their welcome and whether it's time to hand over the country to the Iraqis?and to a leader...
...want to be as respectful of ideas as possible and provoke without offending,” says Gogel. “There’s no avoidance of public art, so the many voices in a community mural mitigate the problem by balancing viewpoints...
...attack [EUROPE, March 22]: the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. On April 26, 1937, German airplanes launched an all-out assault to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco break Basque resistance to his Nationalist forces, an event Pablo Picasso memorialized in his famous antiwar mural. TIME reported on the bombing in our May 10, 1937, issue...
Rothko’s first mural series was intended for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York, which was designed by Philip Johnson ’30. The murals were never installed because of Rothko’s dislike for the restaurant’s elitism. In that series, vertical elements also appear, but without the nodes and articulations that give the Harvard murals a unique place in Rothko’s oeuvre...