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November to Decembr 2007
Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib series features uncompromising, graphic images
by this Colombian painter expressing his outrage at the American-led torture
of Iraqi insurgents. The Paris-based Botero, known for his exaggeratedly
rotund figures in benign social satires, unveiled these controversial works
in Europe in 2005. This will be the first showing of the Abu Ghraib paintings
and drawings in a museum in the U.S. The works in this exhibition are quite
the departure from Botero's usual style, but do relate to his previous works portraying drug cartel violence in
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