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New life for Bush monkey poster

BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/entertainment_enl_1103707679/html/1.stm

Bush Monkeys by Chris Savido

A controversial portrait of President George W Bush, formed using monkey heads, has been projected on a giant billboard in Manhattan.
Chris Savido's acrylic painting, Bush Monkeys, prompted gallery managers to close down a 60-piece show at New York's Chelsea Market last week.

Anonymous donors subsequently paid for the picture to be posted over the entrance to Holland Tunnel for a month.

Some 400,000 drivers are expected to see the billboard each day.

The small painting appears to be a portrait of Mr Bush but on closer inspection is made up of monkey heads in marshes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4117059.stm

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