Censoring Art

Big Brother

by rebecca on 8/11/2007 8:29:23 PM

If the government got involved with censoring art, we would end up in George Orville's novel, and it won't be 1984. We might think it's old school Russia, or China, but it won't feel like the great U S of A. I emphatically believe that art is in the eye of the beholder, which means that which is ... Continue »

"Accio Holy Bible!"

by Ender on 8/8/2007 10:30:45 AM

I've heard a baptist exclaim that the Harry Potter books "don't have a stitch of good," in them. I do not know if his opinion represents Baptists as a whole or not. In the film documentary, "Jesus Camp," the implication was that Evangelicals take a stand against reading Harry Potter as it promotes... Continue »

One of the things that makes this place the great U S of A

by rebecca on 8/3/2007 5:43:52 PM

We don't live in Denmark, who suffered tremendous backlash last year for the artwork/cartoons depicting Muslims in poor light, and we do live in a country whose actions could theoretically stared a third world war, but I have to reiterate the point that art is a freedom of expression, a freedom of s... Continue »

Only in Ceramic

by rebecca on 7/27/2007 1:45:46 PM

This is a tough one for me. I have always cringed when seeing the human life exhibit signs, I literally felt my stomach turn over on itself upon consideration of attending, but my friends said it was fascinating. In particular, I have been told that the cadavers of pregnant woman, all stages from... Continue »

Re: Should human cadavers be displayed as art?

by Jillian Garrity on 7/19/2007 4:19:14 PM

What an odd question? I didn’t even know that there was such a practice. Apparently I’m out of touch. I’ll have to drop by the MFA this evening in order to catch up. What types of cadavers? Like Egyptian mummies? Or bodies that have been preserved through plastination? I’m ... Continue »