Lehigh University art exhibit takes aim at Bush (pic)

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/bush_satire


BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The photograph confronts anyone walking through the lobby of Lehigh University's humanities building: A man who could be President Bush (news - web sites)'s identical twin smirks for the camera, his left hand touching a woman in a negligee.

The 4-foot-by-4-foot image, part of a satirical exhibit by internationally renowned photographer Larry Fink, has upset student conservatives who see it as evidence of a liberal bias on campus.


In an essay accompanying the exhibit, called "The Forbidden Pictures, A Political Tableau," Fink makes clear the target of his satire. He says the 2000 presidential election was stolen, criticizes the "fundamentalist neoconservative conspiracy" and calls Bush a "frat boy with charisma."

College Republicans President Neal Hoffman said Fink has a right to speak his mind, but he complained the exhibit should have been installed in a campus art gallery, not the building that houses the officially nonpartisan political science department.

"It clearly favors an anti-Bush ideology in a department that supposedly is about the nonpartisan study of politics," said Hoffman, 20, a sophomore political science major.

4 pictures (only the 1 above has W in it) and the Artist’s statement
http://www.luag.org/pages/viewfull.cfm?ElementID=10