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Artists using your tax dollars - because its art - it has a message
http://punditpress.blogspot.com/2010/11/report-us-tax-dollars-went-to-exhibit.html
Everything is fair game for art except?
You quessed it! Islam.
Buffalobob
11-30-2010, 16:09
There is an artist who lives next door to me and has showings at the local galleries. Her father was SF. She is very nice. I expect that it is her tax dollars, not yours and mine, that subsidizes her art.
There is another artist who lives across the street. When the snow was deep last winter she decided not to fully shovel her driveway and to park her BMW in my driveway which was clean. I said nothing the first time but the second time we had some words. Instead of her husband finishing shoveling their driveway, they hired the summer lawn Hispanic guys to come and shovel their driveway ( that was good for them and the local economy). I doubt that she is a good enough artist to actually pay any taxes. :D
Smithsonian to Remove Ant-Covered Jesus on Cross Video From Exhibit
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/11/30/smithsonian-remove-ant-covered-jesus-cross-video-exhibit/#ixzz16oAm3Y8F
"........Martin Sullivan, director of the museum, said the video by David Wojnarowicz shows images that "may be" offensive to some.
"I regret that some reports about the exhibit have created an impression that the video is intentionally sacrilegious," the statement read. "In fact, the artists's intention was to depict the suffering of an AIDS victim. It was not the museum's intention to offend. We are removing the video today. The museum's statement at the exhibition's entrance, 'This exhibition contains mature themes,' will remain in place."........"
Yeah, yeah. Hey Wojnarowicz, how come you didn't use an image of Mohammad?
Politics...religion...yada-yada...meh...
Richard :munchin
Politics...religion...yada-yada...meh...
Richard :munchin
So Richard, please explain to us why artists don't use Mohammed as a subject of their artistic license.
Green Light
11-30-2010, 18:46
Richard, sometimes you just leave me behind in the dust. :confused: :D
why artists don't use Mohammed as a subject of their artistic license
Is the GLBT political action committee will cause a ruckus if you depict homosexual behavior in a offensive manner, so Mohammed and the dominate misogynistic culture of islam is off limits for use, or in regard to humorous social commentary.
Dozer523
11-30-2010, 21:49
Jesus Being Eaten By Ants. Who thinks up stuff like that?
I'm probably going to hell, but to me, that's just funny.
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.
it's alright ma-Dylan