A controversial Paul Conrad sculpture standing in the Santa Monica Civic Center depicting an atomic mushroom cloud is back in the news. The city has erected temporary fencing around the sculputure to prevent kids from climbing on it after the city building officer noticed deteriation. The city will bring in an independant structural engineer and conservator to inspect the structural integrity. The LA Times reports that some worry that the city will be pressured to remove the scultpure all together due to its controversial past. In 1990 the artwork was offered to they city, but the citizens voted against it. Only after the Santa Monica Arts Commission unanimously voted four times to accept the piece did the city council vote to accept it in a split 4-3 vote.
Industry news for the professional cartoonist
- AAEC (189)
- ACC (1)
- Alternative comics (119)
- Animation (710)
- Anime (5)
- Anniversaries (171)
- Art Supplies (16)
- Auctions (84)
- Awards (666)
- Blogs (115)
- book (7)
- Books (904)
- Caricature (82)
- cart (1)
- Cartooning (432)
- Cartoonist (206)
- Cartoonist's Cartoonists (232)
- Cartoons (746)
- Charity (15)
- Children's Books (132)
- College cartoonists (75)
- comic (15)
- Comic Art (11)
- Comic Books (604)
- Comic history (958)
- Comic Strip of the Day (2,325)
- Comic strips (8,143)
- Contests (86)
- Controversies (415)
- Conventions (89)
- Crime (11)
- Daily Cartoonist (230)
- Discussion (13)
- Documentary (4)
- edi (1)
- edit (1)
- Editorial cartooning (5,174)
- Events (117)
- Exhibits (316)
- Festival of Cartoon Art (34)
- Fund Raisers (50)
- Gag cartooning (16)
- Gatherings (106)
- Graphic Journalism (102)
- Graphic Novels (260)
- Greeting Cards (32)
- History (9)
- How-to (30)
- Humor (3)
- Illustration (294)
- In Focus (1)
- International (483)
- Interviews (442)
- Legal (103)
- Licensing (58)
- Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers (17)
- Magazine cartoons (445)
- Magazines (119)
- Manga (8)
- mobile (53)
- Mohammed Cartoon (138)
- Movies (244)
- Museums (118)
- National Cartoonist Society (253)
- NCSFest (41)
- New Launches (74)
- news (7)
- News Stream (3)
- newsletters (6)
- Newspaper industry (402)
- newspapers (3)
- Obituary (539)
- Off topic (37)
- Opinion (9)
- Original Art (9)
- podcast (54)
- Podcasts (51)
- Politics (17)
- Profiles (64)
- Publications (16)
- Publishers (28)
- Pulitzer Prize (27)
- Reuben (161)
- Self Syndication (16)
- Speaking Engagements (267)
- sports cartoons (47)
- Syndicates (103)
- Technology (156)
- Television (184)
- The Water Cooler (8)
- video (52)
- web comics (450)
- Web Sites (51)
- webinar (9)
- Year End Review (32)