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| Teresa Heinz Gives $4 Mil to U.S.-Bashing Museum |
| 2005-04-12 |
| Former first lady-wannabe Teresa Heinz has donated $4 million to a Pittsburgh museum that frequently showcases artwork depicting U.S. human rights abuses - including exhibits on lynchings in America, the Rodney King beating and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Heinz Kerry "surprised" the director and staff of the Andy Warhol Museum Saturday night with news of her contribution, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The gift, the third largest in the museum's history, was approved in advance by the directors of the Howard Heinz Endowment, so it could be announced ahead of the foundation's normal grant-making in May, the paper said. The Warhol Museum's Abu Ghraib exhibit, titled "Inconvenient Evidence," prompted howls of protest from veterans groups when it opened last September. "It is a disservice to all the veterans who served," complained Joseph Dugan, president of the Soldiers & Sailors National Military Museum & Memorial. Dugan added that he thought the exhibition's concept was "appalling." "[The Abu Ghraib photos] should not be used as an art exhibit," he insisted. Over the weekend, however, Mrs. Heinz praised the Warhol for taking on controversial topics. "That has been the magic of this museum. It has taken on subjects and exhibits that more conventional institutions would never dare to," she explained at a gala dinner for the Warhol. In 2001, the controversial museum opened an exhibit titled "Without Sanctuary," a series of horrific photographs that showed lynchings in America. "What made that exhibit so successful." Heinz Kerry said, was that "people left not just provoked or saddened, but also more thoughtful, and perhaps even wiser. That is the hallmark of a great institution, and of great art." When it opened in May 1994, the Warhol received a $5 million grant from the Vira Heinz Endowment and the Howard Heinz Endowment, which are chaired by Mrs. Heinz. Hasn't she moved to France, yet? |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #2 If they keep this crap up some loony is going to change all that. But I am betting it is done by a lefty loony first. |
| Posted by: Jame Retief 2005-04-12 11:13:54 PM |
| #1 Hey they should be happy it's in the US. If they insulted some grop like Arabs or Islam in some foreign local the Lions of Islam would just burn them to the ground and kill the "artists." |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-04-12 9:58:33 PM |