Newsmakers - Art ??????

[TonyG]

An exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art has Mayor Rudy G. in an uproar again. Seems an artist (Renee Cox) has a painting on display showing the Last Supper with a naked woman portraying Jesus Christ. He feels it is a slap in the face of Catholics (who are protesting) and that an institution which is partially funded by the public must respond to the public outcry. He wants to initiate a 'look see' into the regulations governing such exhibits. Now, Ms. cox is crying foul saying it is an expression of her freedom of speech.

What's your opinion?

 

[Countess DeWinter]

Her freedom of expression??

Bullshit!

The only reason marginally talented people use religious imagery like that for their "art" is because they don't have enough talent to make a stir on their own. They have to kick someone in the ass to get any attention.
But that's just my opinion.

 

[Nobody Special's wife]

Its art!!

She has the right to paint what ever she feels like painting

 

[R Nitelight]

tony_gam

Somebody should tell the very moral Mayor that there are 10 Commandments, not 9.

 

[willfulbrat]

I would find such a painting very offensive and would not want to see it. And if my tax dollars were funding such art I would be very angry. Having said that, I do feel that Cox has a right to paint what she wants (she can take that up personally with Christ on Judgement Day.)

Picasso said that "Taste is the enemy of creativity", and I agree with that. There should be no censorship of art, but neither should offensive art be federally funded. Just my opinion. I think it's Cox's way of getting attention and if she were ignored, perhaps she would move on to other subjects.