Nutty 9/11 art nixed (No U.S. bashing at WTC, Pataki vows)

NY Daily News ^ | 6-25/05 | JOE MAHONEY and DOUGLAS FEIDEN

[SlowBoat407]

The Drawing Center released a statement saying it would work with the state to resolve the "inevitable tensions" between "remembrance and cultural activity."

This makes it clear that they want controversy on the site, and that they have no intention of being respectful.

[Velveeta]

I agree.

And it is a start, that he spoke up.

[Selkie]

Over my dead body !

No stinking way am I letting the memory of anyone from WTC be desecrated by leftie liberal blue artsy crap bs!

This makes me foam at the mouth

[Selkie]

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[TheForceOfOne]

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[Selkie]

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[retrokitten]

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[Libloather]

Several pieces of artwork that have been displayed at Drawing Center have drawn protests from relatives of 9/11 victims, including 'A Glimpse of What Life in a Free Country Can Be Like #6' (top) and 'Homeland Security' (below).

From the NY Daily News on 6/23 -

We have nothing against silly, self-important, half-baked pieces of "political art" per se. If someone of the "political artist" persuasion chooses to believe that a drawing of a jetliner dive-bombing a naked, spread-legged woman constitutes a sagacious 9/11 statement - "Homeland Security," this specimen is titled - then fine, draw away, and let the product freely hang in whatever private gallery chooses to display the thing, and let all who would admire it come around and do so all they please. But not at Ground Zero.

Works such as "Homeland Security" belong nowhere near the sobering pit where the twin towers stood, but the prospect of such a sacrilege arises because Gov. Pataki and his lower Manhattan minions have given space there to a SoHo art gallery called The Drawing Center. What were they thinking? Did they even take two minutes to glance through The Drawing Center's catalogue, which, besides "Homeland Security," also features such artistic creations as:

- The infamous hooded Abu Ghraib figure, the wires falling from his wrists to arrange themselves into the word "Liberty."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/322012p-275157c.html

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[End_Clintonism_Now]

Thanks for the ping! Here's my submission for the Ground Zero Gallery:

[Libloather]