University flies blackened American flag for art display

Campus Reform ^ | July 11, 2018 | Grace Gottschling

[C19fan]

The University of Kansas is hosting a display on campus featuring an American flag that has been smeared with black paint by an artist as a commentary on “the current political climate.”

The artist is being featured at KU as part of an ongoing project sponsored by Creative Time, a New York based organization focused on three core values: “art matters, artists’ voices are important in shaping society, and public spaces are places for creative and free expression.”

[C19fan]

Would I be able to fly a defaced LGBT rainbow flag.

[simpson96]

What a surprise - Here's another one of her creations.

[Skywise]

We really need to start doing that.

[ColdOne]

These brownshirts have no idea what is in store for them if they do get to destroy this country. They will be the next target of the ruling elite. Eating dirt for meals, living like people in Venezuela.

[ETL]

[BuffaloJack]

It is your right to free speech to fly a defaced American flag. But if you do it in my presence, it will punch you in your face.

[Leaning Right]

> Would I be able to fly a defaced LGBT rainbow flag. <

Sure! Until you get arrested for a “committing a hate crime”, or “inciting violence”, or something like that.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The crap people pass off as “art” these days has to have Leonardo spinning in his grave.

[SMARTY]

Time for alumni donators to wake up

[caseinpoint]

Creative Times’ real three core values: art matters, if it is transgressive, iconoclastic and really pisses off conservatives; artists’ voices are important in shaping society, so long as it is shaping society in the direction we approve (conservative artists deserve to be censored); and public spaces are places for creative and free expression, unless free expression makes a snowflake feel bad or opposes liberal shibboleths.

[caww]

The University of Kansas is a large, “state-sponsored” university.

[mjp]

art matters, artists’ voices are important in shaping society, and public spaces are places for creative and free expression.”

art is a concretization of metaphysics.

[mabarker1]

No they won’t because in the course of Us defending AMERICA they will be taken out like the scum they are.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Just another feckless child throwing a public tantrum.

 

 

[silverleaf]

If I was an alum or a donor-I would stop my donation.
Freedom of speech on my part

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

If I take a photo of her and clean up after my dog with it, can I submit the photo to an art exhibition?

[I want the USA back]

Deface the flag, leave the country.

[SkyDancer]

It’s not art. It’s a political statement.

[a fool in paradise]

How is this display not ‘inciting violence’?

[Midwesterner53]

KU is funded by the taxpayers. Legislature, are you paying attention?