[lbo-talk] Stalin banner removed

[John E. Norem]

After complaints to the city Buildings Department, and concern from the 
Urkainian community in the East Village, Cooper Union removed a giant 
banner 
<http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/stalin-joins-lenin-in-the-east-village/> 
with a reproduction of a Picasso drawing of Joseph Stalin 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/joseph_stalin/index.html>. 
That decision has outraged Lene Berg 
<http://www.bos2008.com/app/biennale/artist/28>, the 43-year-old 
Norwegian artist who included the banner as part of her one-woman art 
installation, “Stalin by Picasso, or Portrait of Woman with Mustache,” 
in the school’s historic Foundation Building, on East Seventh Street.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/cooper-union-removes-stalin-banner/?apage=1