Article in today's Slate by Christopher Hitchens regarding Colombian painter Fernando Botero's new sequence of paintings based on Abu Ghraib. See the story in Art for a Change.
"What Botero has achieved is nothing short of a contemporary equivalent to Pablo Picasso's Guernica, the masterwork painted in outrage over the aerial bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War. Said Botero, 'No one would have ever remembered the horrors of Guernica if not for the paining.' And no one will ever forget the vision of hell Botero has committed to canvas with these startling oil paintings."
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