Bush Monkeys are Back! Savido Painting Auction on eBay
EXCLUSIVE TO TRUTHFIRE (please give credit)
From an Interview with Bucky Turco 1/8/05
Bucky Turco is co-founder and self-described "dice-roller" for Animal Gallery, recently in the news for featuring Christopher Savido's "Bush Monkeys," an acrylic painting made up of dozens of monkeys to create a likeness of George Bush. (See previous post)
CENSORSHIP
The flagrant censorship of Bush Monkeys caused a conscientious Republican (not an oxymoron) to contact Animal Gallery and offer free space on the Jumbotron billboard by the Holland Tunnel. Bucky took the opportunity to cross-promote an eBay auction of the painting.
The auction was wildly successful. After a week, bids had reached $15,300. Along the way, Bucky received disapproving emails, with such enlightened sentiments as, "I alerted eBay to a couple of policy violations; no right-wing conspiracy, LOL. Good luck with your monkeys. God bless America, moron," and "Why would you support those who support Al Quaeda in Iraq?"
Disappearing Act. Then, on the last day of the auction, just before it closed…it disappeared! eBay yanked the auction down, citing that it had become a "high-profile" auction with over 30,000 page views, and the seller suddenly needed 501(c)3 tax status. Questionable auctions are usually taken down within hours. Why did eBay wait a week?
BIGGER AND BETTER
ART FOR FREEDOM. Not to be defeated, Bucky Turco quickly found support from organizations with the required tax-exempt status, who will receive 50% of auction proceeds:
National Coalition Against Censorship (www.ncac.org) and
Veterans for Peace/Iraq Veterans Against the War (www.ivaw.net)
There is so much support, in fact, that the project has grown into a coalition of artists calling themselves Art for Freedom, with 11 paintings now for sale on eBay:
VIEW: Bush Monkeys auction
VIEW: ALL 11 Art for Freedom Auctions
JUMBOTRON
And the digital billboard has been expanded into an 18-second slide show, repeating @ every four minutes on the giant digital screen!
Hurry, this new auction ends Monday, January 17 at 11:00am Pacific Time.
From an Interview with Bucky Turco 1/8/05
Bucky Turco is co-founder and self-described "dice-roller" for Animal Gallery, recently in the news for featuring Christopher Savido's "Bush Monkeys," an acrylic painting made up of dozens of monkeys to create a likeness of George Bush. (See previous post)
CENSORSHIP
The flagrant censorship of Bush Monkeys caused a conscientious Republican (not an oxymoron) to contact Animal Gallery and offer free space on the Jumbotron billboard by the Holland Tunnel. Bucky took the opportunity to cross-promote an eBay auction of the painting.
The auction was wildly successful. After a week, bids had reached $15,300. Along the way, Bucky received disapproving emails, with such enlightened sentiments as, "I alerted eBay to a couple of policy violations; no right-wing conspiracy, LOL. Good luck with your monkeys. God bless America, moron," and "Why would you support those who support Al Quaeda in Iraq?"
Disappearing Act. Then, on the last day of the auction, just before it closed…it disappeared! eBay yanked the auction down, citing that it had become a "high-profile" auction with over 30,000 page views, and the seller suddenly needed 501(c)3 tax status. Questionable auctions are usually taken down within hours. Why did eBay wait a week?
BIGGER AND BETTER
ART FOR FREEDOM. Not to be defeated, Bucky Turco quickly found support from organizations with the required tax-exempt status, who will receive 50% of auction proceeds:
National Coalition Against Censorship (www.ncac.org) and
Veterans for Peace/Iraq Veterans Against the War (www.ivaw.net)
There is so much support, in fact, that the project has grown into a coalition of artists calling themselves Art for Freedom, with 11 paintings now for sale on eBay:
VIEW: Bush Monkeys auction
VIEW: ALL 11 Art for Freedom Auctions
JUMBOTRON
And the digital billboard has been expanded into an 18-second slide show, repeating @ every four minutes on the giant digital screen!
Hurry, this new auction ends Monday, January 17 at 11:00am Pacific Time.
posted by TruthFireEditor at 6:24 PM
1 Comments:
want to know the truth? the painting was ordered down because tenants like myself didn't want to offend customers. we run food stores, the market is just that, it's not a public art gallery. if i wanted to open my store in an art gallery i would have done so and waive my rights to complain. many tenants complained to the president of the market. many of us are liberal. but we're trying to make a living.
besides, from my understanding, that's not why the party was shut down. the party was closed because tenants notified the president of the market that people were smoking pot out in the open, writing graffiti on their walls, and stealing. FDNY and NYPD showed up before anyone at the market said anything to bucky. way too many people were let in.
bucky was asked nicely to take down the piece earlier in the week, and because everyone did him a favor by letting him throw that party, including the president, he obliged with no complaints. but on the day of the party, he put the painting back up and suddenly felt censored.
bucky then went on to whine to every news outlet in the world who would listen. all he wanted to do was profit from this because his magazine is failing.
in the wake of all this, the market refused comment because the story was so rediculous. to me, reading "flagrant" censorship is just hilarious. i wasn't aware that butchers, grocers, and bartenders were capable of censorship. and i don't recall any government agency showing up and seizing the picture. unless of course the president of the market is a member of bush's cabinet.
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