Posted on 02/03/2006 11:47:49 AM PST by voletti
Our interest in this story was sparked by an angry email sent to us here at WCBSTV.com. The writer wasn't angry at us, but rather about what he'd seen at the current National Black Fine Art Show in the Puck Building. This is the 10th anniversary edition of the show which features galleries from across the country selling the works of America's top African American painters, sculptors, and photographers.
But the writer had big problems with a painting by Harlem artist "Tafa". It depicts an upside down Christ-like figure with a face strongly resembling Osama Bin Laden. The email read in part, "This is outrageous. This is an attack against my religion. How can an artist go so low? Most people are outraged, most Christians."
On the phone with me, the artist declined to do an on-camera interview, telling me the work speaks for itself, but adding, the resemblance to Bin Laden was no accident.
The art show's producer Josh Wainwright, insisted he hadn't even made the Bin Laden connection. "Knowing what you know now would you have barred the painting from being part of your show?" I asked. "Absolutely not," he replied. Wainwright says he's a military veteran and despises Bin Laden, but he added, "I don't think it's anyone's job or vocation to limit the expression of artists."
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Just blow up the cartoon of him with a bomb for a turbin and use that as your sign.
Whoa, whoa, whoa - now just hold on a minute there!
Before you get any crazy ideas about sending this turd to the exhibit, have you looked into whether you or your dog can get an NEA grant?
(Wish that were true - it would at least mean I've a g/f! :^p )
yeah, lets hope thats what is intended.
interesting observation.
"Where is the koran in a bottle of urine???"
Such a work of "art" would have to be entitled "The Religion Of Piss."
Despicable beyond belief. If you save the picture in a "window viewer" and rotate it 180 degree you will see that it very much resemble Bin Laden. This hateful artist is making the picture of our Lord as that of a terrorist, disgusting.
That turd oughtta bring big bucks on Ebay.
LOL! Excellent point.
Hah! What do gfs know. Mine thinks this l.....................l is 6 inches.
If these nutcases consider this stuff art, that's their problem. If they are using taxpayer dollars to pay for it, that affects me. It would certainly be a violation of the separation of church and state, not to mention a waste of tax dollars.
You can almost guarantee that you tax dollars paid for this "art".
A few contemporary cartoonists have ignored any potential threats and created satirical and/or mocking cartoons about Mohammed.
The caption says, in French:
Mohammed (being carried away by devils): "It is a judicial error! I am Mohammed, the prophet!"
St. Peter (with a scimitar through his chest): "Definitely: GUILTY!"
That's long been my thought on the subject too.
Produce all the crap you want. Just don't expect the taxpayers to pay for your "creativity".
Well, I just ran a search on Google hoping to find out. It doesn't mention any taxpayer funding, but I guess they would not. If it is funded by the taxpayer, though, I really think someone ought to put this into the courts. Of course, the ACLU will not. They are only opposed to pro-Christian government spending. They don't give a hoot if someone spends public money to trash religion.
Let's put the Oscar, Obie, Tony awards in urine and watch liberal heads explode.
If so, hey, where's the complaint.
None here.
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