N.Y. arts group refuses regulations ‘The New York Foundation for the Arts has pulled out of administrating a major city-sponsored art project this summer to paint and display 1,000 fiberglass cows. The city had sought to have the foundation impose a rule on artists stating: “Designs that are religious, political or sexual in nature will not be accepted.”‘ [Arts Journal] First of all, after the wonderfully creative, zany and at times magical Chicago cows (which I was pleased to get to see), how derivative is this? I mean, why not thousands of fiberglass cats, or rats, or something? And hasn’t Rudy Giuliani learned anything from the city’s embarrassment in the Brooklyn Museum controversy? Update: Hew Orleans is doing fish.