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- Mirth_&_Girth abstract "Mirth & Girth is a posthumous portrait painting by School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) student David K. Nelson, Jr., depicting the recently deceased, popular African-American mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington wearing only a bra, G-string, garter belt and stockings. After a brief showing at a May 11, 1988 private student exhibition in the Art Institute, angry African-American aldermen, including Ald. Allan Streeter, Ald. Bobby Rush and Ald. Dorothy Tillman, arrived with Chicago Police Department officers and confiscated the painting, triggering a First Amendment and race relations crisis and a civil lawsuit.Free-speech advocates condemned the seizure of the painting, while the aldermen maintained that the painting was an insult to Washington and should have been taken down. Some students at the SAIC showed their support for free speech by holding rallies in front of the school and at the Richard J. Daley Plaza, while other students criticized Nelson for poor timing in showing a racially insensitive image.At some point between when the painting was confiscated and when it was returned, a 5-inch (13 cm) gash was made on the canvas. Nelson filed and later won a federal lawsuit against the city, claiming that the painting's confiscation and subsequent damaging violated his First Amendment rights. He and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) settled with the city for $95,000 (1994; $138,000 in 2008) in compensation for the damaged painting after the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the lower court's decision.".
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- Mirth_&_Girth artist "David K. Nelson".
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- Mirth_&_Girth quote "If there was a threat, the way to prevent a riot would have been to protect the painting and arrest the rioters and hecklers. What they did was arrest the painting.".
- Mirth_&_Girth quote "So we must ask whether in 1988 the law was clear that local government officials may not go onto private property without invitation , seize a painting that they do not like because it vilifies a public official with whom they had been associated, and wrap it in brown paper and remove it so that no one can see it. To ask the question is pretty much to answer it. As Chief Justice Warren said in another case involving an effort to suppress public criticism of a mayor of Chicago, "This is a simple case."".
- Mirth_&_Girth quote "The Art Institute has long been a closed bastion of white male Western cultural supremacy.".
- Mirth_&_Girth quote "There is a moral responsibility here that transcends, as far as I'm concerned, transcends the courts, transcends the First Amendment.".
- Mirth_&_Girth quote "We understand students have First Amendment rights, but we do not condone or support the use of the First Amendment to disparage the memory of an important leader like the late Mayor Harold Washington.".
- Mirth_&_Girth source "Allan Streeter, 17th Ward Alderman".
- Mirth_&_Girth source "James A. Brame, president of the Illinois Alliance of Black Student Organizations".
- Mirth_&_Girth source "Jay Miller, executive director for the ACLU".
- Mirth_&_Girth source "Judge Richard Posner, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit".
- Mirth_&_Girth source "Marshall Field, Chairman of the Art Institute of Chicago".
- Mirth_&_Girth title "Mirth & Girth".
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- Mirth_&_Girth subject Category:History_of_Chicago,_Illinois.
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