L.A. museum whitewashes commissioned mural: Across from VA, caskets draped in dollar bills

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It seemed a novel idea: In advance of its recently announced April 2011 show on street art, the Museum of Contemporary Art offered one of its walls to a prominent street artist.

The artist, an Italian who goes by the name Blu, finished the work. This morning, the museum painted over it.

The paint was hardly dry on the mural, which covered the entire north-facing wall of MOCA's Geffen Contemporary with depictions of wooden caskets draped in dollar bills, when the museum literally whitewashed the piece.

A MOCA spokeswoman would not comment on the whitewashing, but the piece may have struck a delicate nerve center that sits just steps from the wall. The piece faces the Veterans Administration healthcare building on Temple Street. The dollar bills draped on Blu's caskets seem to be an overt replacement of the customary American flags that cover the coffins of soldiers killed in wartime.

[pipoman]

1. Good

[denbot]

2. Truth..

People in uniform are treated like a commodity to be spent when it profits companies like Halliburton.

[wtmusic]

3. If only he had painted one of those nice modern pictures you see in banks.

Not.

[timefortherevolution]

6. Too funny! That mural is incredibly POWERFUL. Of course it was painted over.

[OutNow]

4. Rivera - Presente!

Man at the Crossroads - google it

[gadjitfreek]

5. SEEM to???

No seem about it. There's a reason the artist chose the one dollar denomination for the drapery...we sell our children cheap for MIC corporate profits.