Today's Art Award

Courtesy of Jesus' General and the BBC comes the story of this beautiful work of art. Well, OK -- but you've got to admit it's at least amusing, right? The picture was slated to be installed as part of a larger exhibit at the City Museum of Washington, D.C., but was nixed after the museum found that "the exhibit was not what it had expected." (To be fair to the City Museum, a visit to its Web site suggests that the picture really is a pretty far cry from the local-historical material that's the museum's usual stock-in-trade.)

In any event, a board member of Art-O-Matic, the D.C. group that had organized the exhibit, noted that "about a dozen people may have seen it" before it was taken down. I think we owe it to America to make sure that more eyeballs find their way to this American art treasure.