AUGUSTA, ME (AP).- It’s big in its own right, a 36-foot-wide, 11-panel mural representing Maine’s labor history. Even bigger is the nerve its removal has struck in politics, academia and the art world during the national debate over public workers’ col…
Maine Labor Art’s Removal Strikes Sensitive Nerve in Politics, Academia and the Art World
AUGUSTA, ME (AP).- It’s big in its own right, a 36-foot-wide, 11-panel mural representing Maine’s labor history. Even bigger is the nerve its removal has struck in politics, academia and the art world during the national debate over public workers’ col…
Federal Lawsuit Filed Over Maine Labor Mural Removal
AUGUSTA (AP).- A federal lawsuit was filed Friday over Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s decision to remove a 36-foot mural depicting the state’s labor history from the Labor Department. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court seeks to confirm the mural’s curr…
Maine Governor Says Bad Timing in Labor Mural Removal
AUGUSTA, ME (AP).- Maine Gov. Paul LePage says his timing wasn’t the best when he ordered the removal of a mural about the state’s labor history from the Department of Labor in Augusta. In his first public comments on the issue, which have drawn criti…
Maine Governor Paul LePage Taken to Task after Labor-Themed Mural Removed
PORTLAND, ME (AP).- The president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts sent a scathing letter Tuesday to Maine Gov. Paul LePage for removing a labor-themed mural from the Department of Labor headquarters as the status of the disputed artwork remai…