Fernando Botero, the Colombian artist best-known for his depictions of chubby men and women which are often seen simply (and wrongly) as postcard cute, and whose statues are dotted over Madrid, has converted his sense of injustice at the abuses of Abu Ghraib into a series of startling paintings which form part of a retrospective of his work in Rome that started last week. Further paintings here: prepare to be shocked all over again. None of the paintings are for sale, with Botero preferring to keep them on display in the world's museums, lest we forget. There's a nice thread on the story at the Daily Kos, from about a month ago: I've been slow on this. Feeling the world needed to know, I also posted on this subject to the often wonderful Metafilter, where it provoked a fairly lengthy thread. If you'd like some lighter Botero after that, go here for a classic interpretation of Las Meninas.