Oh, how I have come to loath the terms “Art” and “Institution” appearing anywhere within five words of each other in a sentence…
It would seem that one of our major “Art Institutions” has been “quietly” displaying a series of photographs that includes images of well, you know… little boys and little girls. I can only assume their justification; ‘these are photographs by renowned artist, being displayed within the context of an Art Gallery’… and so on.
If, as a ‘community’ we can almost completely collectively agree on one basic edict: “Let there be NO child pornography”; why shouldn’t we apply this across ALL ‘venues’? – Why should the elitists in the Institutional Art world be judged differently or held to a different standard with respect to this primary desire of the, ‘community’? There’s no slippery slope here; its actually quite a simple line… OK, even if the line where somewhat blurry, simple solution; in the case of ‘is it child porn or not child porn’; we’ll just agree to err on the side of caution…
Meanwhile; the fact that the Big Chocolate Naked Jesus continues to be homeless baffles me!
wow! got facism?