As long as I brought it up, here's the story as I heard it (different from what was reported in the local press):
One of the cow artists (can't remember who) spray painted grafitti tags on his cow. The city had a fit (they want an image of a clean, safe, gang-free city) and pulled that cow from exhibition. Meanwhile, Ed Paschke, very well-known (and overrated, imho) Chicago artist, had grafitti tags on his cow as well. The city wasn't about to pull Paschke's cow, or ask him to change it. He's too well known. So, Paschke pulled his cow without the city's permission, installed it in the window of an upscale River North gallery,and sent out a press release claiming that the city asked him to remove it. The city didn't say anything about this, so Paschke was able to get a lot of "I'm a bad-boy artist" publicity in the local press, which swollowed his story without question, while the REAL bad-boy artist was forgotten. Ah, the art world. Forget quailty of art. As long as you can draw attention to yourself, you've got it made! Pdowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Who was this? Tyler Hewitt wrote: some falsely generated publicity from a very well known Chicago artist. Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
