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WINGED FLAP: Potential controversy over a winged...

WINGED FLAP: Potential controversy over a winged male nude painted by artist Jim Morphesis for the John Wayne Airport arts program has led airport officials to cancel a printing of several thousand posters for the new airport terminal’s Sept. 8 open house. . . . The airport arts commission will decide this week whether to display the original, which resembles a classical torso with an Icarus theme . . . Although less revealing than Michaelangelo’s Renaissance works, the painting drew nervous reactions from some county officials.

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