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NCDD member Paul Wahrhaftig sent us a copy of a fascinating article entitled "Artist's blue buttons ask Americans to talk about Iraq," suggesting that we build on the artist's idea. Nancy Hwang, a 31-year-old Manhattan artist, has been distributing plain blue metal buttons. The buttons have no words on them; "they're a symbol of dialogue. They mean 'let's talk - about Iraq.'" The buttons are blank to make a point: that people need to talk to each other about the Iraqi crisis rather than just display their views on a button. The buttons are available for free in some New York galleries, at the Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (www.warhol.org), whose mission is to be a vital forum of discussion about art and society.
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