11.15.2006

Series Of Riveting Paintins Based on Photos of Prisoner Abuse At Abu Ghraib in Iraq

From The Nation, a must-read although - and I tell you it would not be at all easy to do so - I feel compelled to see the paintings.

The Body in Pain
Arthur C. Danto Fernando Botero's latest series of paintings, inspired by the Abu Ghraib photos, immerse us in the experience of suffering in a way the original photographs never did.