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Dec 19 15 03:17 pm Link Read the article. It seems that the artist's feelings were that if fake boobs can be used in an advert, real crotches should be too. Apples and oranges. Or melons. Having been censored myself a number of times, I need more information to form an opinion. There are a few galleries that gave come and gone in my home town ... Nothing like the Gasosian, but all actual galleries. We also host an 'art walk' in the summer months. All of the galleries that censored or limited me were on the main street. I've done nudes off main, and nobody batted an eye. My own studio was a shared building, and they only asked me to take down my nudes (or put up a warning)for Open House. Of course that's the busiest time and painters didn't need to do that, but that is another discussion entirely. Just because the images were in a gallery doesn't mean it was a nude friendly gallery. Even then, it doesn't mean that the artistic intent of the show had anything to do with why it was taken down. Based on my own experience, I'd guess that the artist put nudes in a public place, the gallery owner allowed it because they liked the work, and then took them down under pressure from the city itself. In the US, the city can't enforce morality, unless it passes laws specifically to do so. This is common in tourist towns, but uncommon elsewhere. I assume other first-world countries are generally similar. But what a city can do is withhold funding, grants, and advertising, and bar the gallery from any local programs. Again, assumption. The gallery may have felt that the loss of traffic and income wasn't worth making a stand. Dec 19 15 07:45 pm Link Nice pictures but I understand the police point of view as well. I hope he can show his work somewhere else. Dec 19 15 08:35 pm Link It's Copenhagen run by social democrats for over a hundred years, there are so many rules your freedoms are always depending what's green friendly , one of the most expensive cities in Europe. Drugs are ok but nudity no. If you go to church you need to pay tax. Can't compare to are laws on nudity. Dec 19 15 08:43 pm Link toesup wrote: That's crazy! I never thought that I'd read these words together "... prudish police in Copenhagen" but that is exactly what it says. Dec 19 15 09:56 pm Link D a v i d s o n wrote: In the 1960ies/1970ies Copenhagen was the Mekka of Pornography in Western Europe - a liberal city in a country with liberal pornography rules. By then and by nowadays standards... Dec 20 15 05:52 am Link There was an American Attorney General named John Ashcroft who pushed very hard for the rest of the world to adopt American policies regarding sex crimes and the war on pornography. It has changed the landscape of the porn industry both in the USA and through Europe and Asia. America forgets sometimes how its policies can affect the culture around the world. I think America is changing the world views in general about nudity. Dec 20 15 06:02 am Link Local college had a Robert Mapplethorpe photo exhibit once. Seems some elementary schools had a field trip there. Parents complained and it got shut down. Sounded like the elementary schools book their field trips so far in advance they get surprised at times at what is on display. Dec 20 15 06:15 am Link martin b wrote: Ashcroft: The guy who put clothes on the statue of Justice. Even a stone boob offended him. Dec 20 15 06:48 am Link Natural Light on Location wrote: haha, thanks for the laugh. I remember him trying to throw all the porn producers in LA in jail. It was really strange to see. Dec 20 15 06:59 am Link GRMACK wrote: I can't really imagine why anyone would want their children to not see picture of a bullwhip in a man's ass. just kidding. Dec 20 15 07:01 am Link D a v i d s o n wrote: So then if she had printed her images on Hahnemühle's bamboo paper, a renewable resource, she would have been golden, no? Dec 20 15 09:50 am Link toesup wrote: This was obviously a publicity stunt. Copenhagen's Nytorv square is not a gallery. This wasn't censorship. This was a cry for help, an attempt to draw attention to a photographer who needed some press. It apparently worked. Let them have their 15 minutes and then let them fade back into the background. If you can't get your work seen on it's merits ..you have to try something as desperate as this. A cry for attention and nothing more. Dec 21 15 07:55 am Link |
