What about post office murals?
"I consider all the post office murals threatened," said Gray Brechin, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has written about the New Deal.
He painted portraits, illustrated textbooks, and helped design sets for the Metropolitan Opera and Hollywood films, and also executed post-office murals for the Federal Arts Project.
Called the Section of Fine Arts, this was the program that created the famous post-office murals still visible in many communities where the downtown has yet to be modernized.
The demonstrators had turned the façade of Ghannouchi's office into a mural where people could spray graffiti or write on sheets of paper in colored ink.
For instance, an office with a mural of a river scene contains a fish tank (Slide 2), which itself contains real live, breathing fish.
In the great hall outside his office, a giant mural depicted Mr. Tandja, arms raised, in the center of lush fields, surrounded by tiny citizens with arms reaching out to him.
Inside the school, there were orderly classes on the stairs to the main office, brightly painted murals and posters encouraging students to dream big.
Sitting in his prefab constituency office, plastered with murals of a united Ireland and cards declaring "Behind every fortune lies a crime", the 64-year-old lashes out at Tory "brutality", calls for talks with Argentina over the Falklands and refuses to dismiss calls for a war crimes trial for Tony Blair.
At a time when more and more people rely on email, texting, and twittering to gauge the pulse of the nation, I just step into my town's post office, with the Works Progress Administration mural still on the wall, and see what strange things the mail has brought.
