I'm sad to announce that Tucson Arts Brigade Executive Director Michael B. Schwartz has told me to “Remove all tab murals from your site immediately.”
TAB does a great service to the community — for instance, working with youth (some who've been tagging buildings) to teach them to paint murals. Though I don't understand Michael's request, I'll do what he asked ASAP. If you love TAB murals, here's a Google search you can click on to see them while they're still online:
"Tucson Arts Brigade" OR TAB site:tucsonmurals.blogspot.com
Three years ago, I posted a list of Murals on TAB's Facebook page. You might find some newer photos there as well as on TAB's website.
By the way, I won't be removing the entire blog entries — just the photos.
TAB does a great service to the community — for instance, working with youth (some who've been tagging buildings) to teach them to paint murals. Though I don't understand Michael's request, I'll do what he asked ASAP. If you love TAB murals, here's a Google search you can click on to see them while they're still online:
"Tucson Arts Brigade" OR TAB site:tucsonmurals.blogspot.com
Three years ago, I posted a list of Murals on TAB's Facebook page. You might find some newer photos there as well as on TAB's website.
By the way, I won't be removing the entire blog entries — just the photos.
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You should ignore his request. He is insane.
I really don't think he has any right to tell you to take down the photos of the murals. It seems like you're doing a public service by including them on your blog. If it were my blog, I would tell Michael Swartz to hire a lawyer, and leave the photos up (I assume they are photos you took). Additionally, you can get a 30 minute consultation with a lawyer for $35 here: http://www.tucsonlawyers.org.
This is so cruel and false. Why say these things?
I would publish the email that Michael Schwartz sent me, but I think it would violate his privacy. Of course I didn't remove the photos of the beautiful murals with some kind of vendetta. Michael requested that I remove the photos.
Since then, he's also demanded that I remove all mentions of the Tucson Arts Brigade on this blog! Recently he told me that I'm required to state that the new downtown murals are copyrighted by TAB -- which directly contradicts his previous demand that I wasn't allowed to mention TAB on this blog.
Other artists -- including one trained in journalism -- have suggested that I just ignore Michael. I'm sorry to do that -- because he's contributing so much to the Arts in Tucson -- but I think his demands are just "over the top."
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