Letter Bomb

April, 2007

Portland, maine Anticipating a legal chal­lenge, the Maine Bureau of Liquor Enforce­ment dropped a ban on several beer labels,including the one for Santa's Butt Winter Porter and two that de­pict naked women. On the Winter Porter label, Santa is sitting on a butt—an archaic word for the barrels in which beer was once aged and transported. One of the other two labels—both of which are based on paintings—is a re­production of Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, which hangs in the Louvre...