ARTISTS AGAINST BUSH

America Coming Together, a political action committee aided in part by photorealistic painter Chuck Close, will hold an anti-Bush fundraiser June 29.

An AP story includes this illustrative tidbit:

Politics and art have a history, especially in New York. Mexican painter Diego Rivera, a communist, angered industrial tycoon John D. Rockefeller's family in the early 1930s by including the image of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in a mural the Rockefellers commissioned Rivera to paint at Rockefeller Center. After a standoff between Rivera and the Rockefellers, building workers destroyed the painting.