April 13, 2005
Patriot Act
The Secret Service has drawn attention to an art exhibit at Columbia College featuring mock postal stamps like these.
Al Brandtner, artist
First person account
I am on staff at Columbia College in the Art department, and Michael the curator is a friend of mine. This is not his first visit from the feds. Last time it was postal inspectors. His work always involves stamp format (or nearly always), and sometimes he does things with them that get people mad. (like when his Chernobyl Deer stamp showed up in the Nowegian mail. The Norwegian athorities were not amused)
I think this will all blow over pretty quickly, quite frankly. Unless the artist in question explicitly threatened the president, there is little they can do.
Michael has a good site. It's www.badpressbooks.com/mhdl.html
Posted by Hannah at April 13, 2005 09:41 AM