Bush monkey image on giant billboard

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A portrait of President George W. Bush using monkeys to form his image, which was banished from a New York art show last week amid charges of censorship, has been projected on a giant billboard in Manhattan.

"Bush Monkeys," a small acrylic on canvas by Chris Savido, created the stir last week at the Chelsea Market public space, leading the market's managers to close down the 60-piece show.

Animal Magazine, a quarterly arts publication that had organized the month-long show, said on Tuesday that anonymous donors had paid for the picture to be posted on a giant digital billboard over the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, used by thousands of commuters travelling between Manhattan and New Jersey.

The original picture will be auctioned on eBay, with part of the proceeds donated to parents of U.S. soldiers wishing to supply their sons and daughters with body armour in Iraq.

U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld came under fire from soldiers in Kuwait earlier this month who complained that they had to use scrap metal to armour their vehicles.

"Many of my friends are over in Iraq," Savido said in a statement.

The painting offers a likeness of Bush but the image is made up of monkeys swimming in a marsh. It was originally priced at $3,500 in the show's catalogue.

Organizers expect more than 400,000 drivers to see the billboard each day for the next month.

I wonder where they ever got the idea from?

I think these pics are an outrage.

Would anyone think of the animals ?

Now ladies, you all should stop squating and peeing together.

You know a mind is a terrible thing to waste. You can just say NO!

Drop the Thai stick!

Lay off your favorite Keytoy Ames and STOP buying that baby oil by the gallon.


YOU SEE THIS IS THE INSIDE OF YOUR MINDS on those bad bad things.






You girls got plenty of paper don't you?

That is all!

Wow! Groovy pic!

Nice one ustrader!

Much better.

Nice to see more mileage is being gotten out of those Bush is a monkey Pics.

I can see original thinking is not dead,....... Or is it?

This one's for the Gent!