Editing Artistamp (section)

==Controversy==
In 2005, United States Secret Service agents attended the opening of the ''Axis of Evil'' exhibition at [[Columbia College Chicago]]'s Glass Curtain Gallery. According to Carol Ann Brown, director of the gallery, the agents were most interested in the work entitled "Patriot Act" by Chicago-based artist Al Brandtner. The work depicts a revolver pointed at the head of then President George W. Bush. Secret Service spokesman Tom Mazur stated, "We need to ensure ... that this is nothing more than artwork with a political statement."<ref>Art Daily, April 16, 2005</ref>

When the exhibit opened at a gallery on the [[University_of_Wisconsin–Green_Bay|University of Wisconsin-Green Bay]] campus on September 15, 2005, university chancellor Bruce Shepard directed the removal of Brandtner's work from the gallery. In a letter to faculty and staff, Shepard said "in a society all too violence prone, using these or other venues to appear to advocate or suggest assassination is not something the UW-Green Bay may do."<ref>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, September 30, 2005</ref>