Bloomberg says:

You can’t arrest 1,800 people without having somebody in the middle who shouldn’t have been arrested. That’s what the courts are there to find out afterward.

Apparently they’re there to sort out the journalists too if necessary.

Editor and Publisher has an article today titled Reporters’ Legal Hotline Drew Nine Calls During GOP Convention

A special legal support hotline for reporters covering the Republican National Convention, set up by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, received at least nine calls for help from journalists who were arrested or detained at the event, the RCFP said Tuesday.

Although that may be considered low, since nearly 2,000 protesters were arrested during the week, RCFP leaders contend it is significant, since a similar hotline set up for the Democratic National Convention in Boston prompted no calls.

Go read the whole article. They have a list of people detained by the police. Some of them were held for well over 24 hours.

Via Crain’s New York:

Broadway was hit hard last week when the Republican National Convention was in town.

Attendance for the week ending Sept. 5 dropped 18% to 163,977 compared with the same week last year. Box-office grosses plummeted 20%, to $10.9 million, despite the League of American Theatres and Producers’ “Unconventional Wisdom” discount ticket program. That promotion sold $215,000 worth of tickets.

An image of Dewitt Godfrey’s installation at Black and White Gallery, from the gallery web site:

The ones you see in the back are in the gallery’s outdoor patio space.

In the New York Times Magazine.

Via Tom Tomorrow.

It’s not him, it’s a female protestor, for those confused by jumping right to his post.

U.S. Route 66, Tucumcari, New Mexico, June, 2000
Copyright © 2000 Robert L. Jones.

While googling for something else, I stumbled across Robert Jones’s gallery of sign photographs. Check it out.

Christopher Ryan sent me a link to his account of being arrested during Critical Mass.

While I cringed a bit at his use of “flamer”, his politics seem to be in the right place generally, and I’m not quite sure what a straight ska-punk musician should call a homo these days…

If I were in Berlin, I would not miss this show by Stefan Saffer at müllerdechiara. We saw his work at the Whitney ISP and loved it. The work in the above photo is made of cut paper. They look like they might be metal, but they are incredibly delicate.

We love the GLAMericans, and marched with them in one of the anti-war demos in early 2003.

Here is a nice album of photos from them on August 29.

Hurrah! An art post!

This looks like an interesting show from M.Y. Art Prospects:

The Secret Forest of Princess Knight:
Fantastic Landscapes from Japan

September 9 – October 16, 2004
Reception: Thursday, Sept. 9, 6-8pm

Our exciting fall exhibition, curated by Taro Chiezo – the Tokyo & New York-based artist whose “neo-pop” work shaped Japan’s 1990’s art scene along with Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara, sheds new light on Japanese landscape art. The exhibition will present works by six individual artists and two collaborative groups. International stars and up-and-coming artists, they all share a sensitivity influenced by the manga/animation subculture widely known as “Japanimation.”

The exhibition’s title “The Secret Forest of Princess Knight” originated from the popular manga series “Ribon no Kishi (Princess Knight)” by Tezuka Osamu (1928-1989). His work, like Walt Disney’s, has made a profound impact on pop culture and contemporary art even outside Japan.