Published: Jul 22, 2005 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - An art gallery director says she was fired for talking on television about a sexually explicit caricature involving President Bush, an Arab sheik and a barrel of oil.
Posted on 07/22/2005 7:04:34 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
Florida Art Director Fired After TV Discussion of Graphic Work on Bush
Published: Jul 22, 2005 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - An art gallery director says she was fired for talking on television about a sexually explicit caricature involving President Bush, an Arab sheik and a barrel of oil.
Susan Buzzi was the Broward Art Guild's executive director and had worked with its gallery for more than 10 years.
Buzzi and Alfred Phillips, who painted the piece, were among several people interviewed by comedian Ed Helms in a spoof news report of the art controversy on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" several weeks ago.
Buzzi said she was told Wednesday that her "services are no longer required" at the gallery.
"I certainly didn't expect this," she said Friday as helpers scooped up belongings and loaded them into a waiting car.
Guild board members assured Phillips that Buzzi's firing had nothing to do with exhibiting his work or appearing on the comedy show.
"However, I think the board members used poor judgment in their timing," he said. "It gives the appearance that censorship is alive and well."
Julia Andrews, the new president of the guild's board of directors, declined to discuss the reasons for Buzzi's dismissal.
The graphic painting was selected for the gallery by an outside consultant and was sold following the May exhibit.
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On the Net: http://www.browardartguild.org
AP-ES-07-22-05 2134EDT
Skipping the art ping on this crap. Censorship, I guess.
Vulgarity is NOT art.
Totally disgusting.
That's not art, it's pop art. There's a big difference.
This is not INHO "Art", but it does do a great job of displaying the intellectual level of many of the President's critics. In that sense it does serve a useful purpose.
That's not even pop art, it's junior high art.
Nah, pop art can be anything that doesn't qualify as real art, but appeals to certain cultural groups.
Dear Ms. Buzzi:
BOO HOO BOO HOO BOO HOO BOO HOO BOO HOO BOO HOO
I guess it's the anti-President Bush art period. There was this piece of trash and the one in California with a picture of the US being flushed down the toilet and it said Tanks to Bush. If the libs are going to do this stuff they should at least show some creativity.
An appropriate response, from a conservative artist (is there such a thing) would be a gaggle of artists sucking the teats of an enormous Stalin while simultaneously crapping out "art." The "art" looks like nothing but there is an adoring throng of supplicant elites gathered around paying homage to the artists. That would make a political statement.
Not likely to get a showing, though.
Yes, that's Dubya's face. And yes, the button reads, "God hates fags."
******
Censor This!
By Jason Budjinski
Art in your eye
THU 5/26
The Broward Art Guild has never been in the business of dumbing down its exhibits to suit the overly sensitive or intellectually bankrupt. But when the guild rolls out its annual taboo-testing exhibit "Controversy," the envelope is not just pushed -- it's run through a shredder.
"The exhibit captures the pulse of the current time," Executive Director Susan Buzzi notes. "It's an exact reflection of what's going on. And it's not always pretty."
"Controversy" features works by tricounty artists who dive headfirst into the stickiest of subjects: politics, religion, sexuality, and Ronald McDonald (OK, so that last one's kinda greasy). Needless to say, Bush and Cheney are common subjects. Alfred Phillips' Yahoo! depicts the president bent over an oil barrel with a Saudi royal pumping him full of, um, you know. Other humorous jabs at Bush include Gerard Delaney's Liberty or Death? (shown left). But Dubya's not the only one on trial here; the icons of the fast-food industry are parodied in Brass' False Idols, a series of portraits (Ronald, Wendy, Colonel Sanders, and Burger King) flanked by religious imagery.
sick pukes!
Good grief. Just when you think the left can't sink any further...
Check this out...
Holy crap.
has anyone put the 'artist' in chair and forced him to watch gay porn? Oh it wouldnt be forcing him? I see.
So sorry. It is not even a well drawn cartoon.
I'm impressed and surprised the FR Mod's removed comment 2, but left your post.
I saved it and will post merely a link if it does get removed.
It doesn't have to be well drawn. Pop culture is really anti-culture that is encouraged an nurtured to keep the masses in control. It feeds the anger of the masses against what they see as the oppressive higher class real culture. In other words, it's a kind of in your face object lesson from the masses to the truly cultured.
It's pretty stupid and juvenile work, not particularly suprising or accomplished technically. Fits the anticipated template, and does nothing to "make one think." Since the show was entitled controversy, one suposes a well rendered respectful depiction of the ten commandments, or an anti abortion poster would accomplish much more along those lines. But it probably wouldn't be allowed if there is any public funding involved. Now that's "controversy".
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