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SURPRISE!: Urban artists love Obama

POSTED: Monday, February 16, 2009, 9:43 PM

Filed Under: Arts | President Obama

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In this week's issue, Robin Rice wrote about two galleries that found inspiration in our new commander in chief. The exhibits, "Obama-rama" at Projects Gallery and "Yes We Did: An Obama Celebration" at Sande Webster Gallery, are both worth checking out, if only to recall the mania you may have felt immediately after the election. (It's harder to be unreasonably joyful about the stimulus package, but that's for another post entirely.)

Rice didn't mention the other Obama-themed exhibit in town, Jayson Musson's "Barack Obama Battles the Pink Robots" at the Last Drop Café (1300 Pine Street). Known more for his musical art than his visual art — he's a rapper for Philly group Plastic Little — Musson is also a talented illustrator, painter and comic writer. His watercolors at this month's exhibit, though, are far more lighthearted than his other works, which often convey a sense of political unrest. Conversely, his pieces on Obama are utterly ecstatic. Without any sarcasm, they portray the childlike awe he inspired in many upon being elected. In some, like the pictured work, Musson also reveals the danger in trusting Obama too much. After all, the man's not a superhero.

Through Sat., Feb. 28, Last Drop Café, 1300 Pine St., 215-893-9262, lastdropcoffeehouse.com

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Jack

Posted 2010-01-12 14:27:23

Screw Obama he's a waste, we don't need a marxist president.

Brian Howard

Posted 2010-01-12 17:35:09

Really Jack? Still going to that well?

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Cute kid gives Obama a terrorist fist jab

POSTED: Monday, January 19, 2009, 5:40 PM

Filed Under: Media | President Obama | Web Junk

CNN, take heed: Kids make terrible interviewees. I don't have anything against them (OK, maybe I think they're a little lazy), but c'mon. Did you really have to talk to little Victor about how he gave Prez-elect Obama a fist jab at 30th Street Station? Did you expect him to say anything other than "It was fun?" I especially hate how Wolf Blitzer is all, "We have a very special guest today." Yes, he's special simply because he's 5 years old! Ugh. OK, wait. I just watched the part where he's talking about the fist jab again. It's kind of adorable that he's taking back that gesture. Damn cute liberal kids.

Phillybits

Posted 2009-01-19 18:12:15

Terrorist fist-bumps?! Someone call Michelle Malkin! There's a certain little 5 year old, it seems, who may need to be subjected to some "enhanced interrogation" to determine the extent of his relationship with B. Hussein Obama. And while she's at it, perhaps Malkin can go dumpster diving in his parents trash to see what kind of links they have to known terrorist organizations.

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