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	<title><![CDATA[Mr. President, Tear Down This Painting]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-melber/contemporary-art-in-the-w_b_163232.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Obama hasn't had time to redecorate the oval office yet, though he recently signaled his intention to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29whitehouse.html?_r=1&amp;amp;hp" target="_blank">get rid of those decorative plates</a>.<br /> <br /> Whenever he does get around to hanging art in his new house, he should go contemporary--that is, pick work made by living artists--and buck the stale tradition of very old, very realist <a href="http://www.whitehousehistory.org/03/subs/images_e/art_10.html" target="_blank">portraits</a>, <a href="http://www.whitehousehistory.org/03/subs/images_e/art_07.html" target="_blank">landscapes</a> and <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2008/01/hbc-90002237" target="_blank">western stuff</a>. Obviously no one's going to fault Obama for putting...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-02-02T15:44:00-05:00</date_published>
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