Michael Murphy (born March 22, 1975) is an American artist, sculptor and pioneer of the perceptual art movement. Murphy became widely known during the 2008 U.S. presidential election, after creating the first portrait of candidate Barack Obama in 2007 that influenced thousands of artists to contribute to the "Art for Obama" movement, documented in Shepard Fairey's book Art for Obama: Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change.
His approach is to challenge the viewer's boundaries using multidimensional techniques in order to create three-dimensional renderings of flat images. His inventions of "Expanded Graphics", the "3D Halftone" and "Suspended Narrative Mobiles" have established an entirely new formula for rendering images.
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Date: 23 March 1975
S Vietnamese Govt prohibits foreign and domestic news orgns from reporting tactical troop movements until they have been announced officially; move is made because of worsening mil situation in country; rule had been instituted in '71 but was largely ignored (S)
Date: 23 March 1975
Setting precedent, wives of Pres Ford and Vice Pres Rockefeller are guests with their husbands at Gridiron Club dinner as journalists group initiate 1st woman member in its 90-yr history, Helen Thomas of UPI (S)
Date: 23 March 1975
By BEN A. FRANKLIN Special to The New York Times
Ben FRANKLIN
US Dist Judge Howard F Corcoran upholds decision to rev libel suit against A Britton Hume and Jack Anderson for Hume's refusal to divulge source of item in Dec 13, '70, colunn by Anderson that Edward L Carey, former UMW gen counsel, and W A Boyle, former UMW pres, had been 'seen removing box full of documents from Boyle's office'; Boyle was then under investigation for complicity in '69 murder of Joseph A Yablonski; Carey filed $10-million libel action, including $1.5-million defamation claim against Hume; details (M)
Date: 22 March 1975
Stereotypers Union local 1 on Mar 21 breaks off negotiations with Publishers Assn of NYC and will seek assistance of mediator, Vincent D McDonnell; local pres William Kennedy comments (S)
Date: 23 March 1975
By SETH S. KING Special to The New York Times
Seth KING
Undercover agents of Chicago (Ill) Police Dept infiltrated several community action orgns during last several yrs and dept's intelligence unit has kept dossiers on scores of Chicago civic leaders, politicians and journalists; secret police surveillance of individuals is disclosed when Chicago Daily News obtains list of those on whom files were kept; list had been obtained by lawyers through subpoena in antidiscrimination ct action brought by black policemen's orgn; earlier in wk, Daily News found that police undercover agents had become active members of such groups as Met Area Housing Alliance, Rev Jesse L Jackson's People United to Save Humanity, Citizen's Action Program, Orgn for Better Austin, community improvement group in racially changing neighborhood of Austin, and Alliance to End Repression, which concerned itself with cases of alleged police brutality; Marcus W Salone, agent who infiltrated Austin orgn, served as group's pres from '72 until '74; surveillance list included First Natl Bank chmn Gaylord Freeman, Sears Roebuck chmn Arthur M Wood, Notre Dame pres Rev Theodore M Hesburgh, former Chicago Bears football star Gale Sayers, civil liberties lawyers Alexander Polikoff and Marshall Patner, State Sen Richard Newhouse, black lawyer who ran against Mayor Daley in recent primary, TV commentator Len O'Connor and Daily News columnist Mike Royko, both of whom have written books critical of Daley, and Repub State's Atty Bernard M Carey (M)
Date: 23 March 1975
bank trustees have announced that late Karl A Bickel, former UP pres, set up scholarship fund for needy and deserving journalism and broadcast students at 3 univs; fund will provide $75,000 a yr for selected student attending communications and journalism colls at Stanford Univ, Univ of Fla and Univ of Tenn (S)
Date: 22 March 1975
Dissident Soviet historian Roy A Medvedev is called to Moscow public prosecutor's office and warned to drop his new journal 20th Century; journal is intended to voice loyal criticism of Soviet system; Medvedev reptdly declined to stop journal, arguing that only a ct could decide if it was anti-Soviet; add that legal officials also warned him to cancel contract with Western co for publication of book echoing views of Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn that Soviet Nobel laureate Mikhail Sholokhov did not write novel And Quiet Flows the Don (S)
Date: 23 March 1975
Pres Ford says he might veto tax cut bill if it calls for what he considers too large a reduction in taxes or contains too many extraneous amendments, int, Los Angeles Times (S)
Date: 23 March 1975
By HELEN P. SILVER Special to The New York Times
Helen SILVER
Article on different types of bread baked by Marion Josephson of W Orange, NJ; illus (M)
Date: 23 March 1975
Bernadette Devlin, who was youngest woman ever to sit in Brit Parliament 6 yrs ago, is now housewife-politician after losing her seat in '74 elections in N Ireland; prefers to use her married name, Bernadette McAliskey; she and her husband, Michael, a primary-school teacher, live in cottage at Derryloughan in County Tyrone; as leading member of Irish Repub Socialist party, she is at pol war with Official Irish Repub party; analysts have decribed Official IRA as Stalinist and party Mrs McAliskey belongs to as Trotskyite; she claims she is Marxist (M)