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jOker: ‘Art is What You Can Get Away With’
Big Hollywood (Breitbart.com) ^ | Andrew Leigh

Posted on 08/06/2009 9:56:51 AM PDT by SloopJohnB

In 1987, Andres Serrano submerged a small plastic crucifix in a glass jar of his own urine and called it Piss Christ. Not to be outdone, Chris Ofili daubed elephant dung on a painting of the Virgin Mary.

While some narrow-minded philistines complained, the artistic establishment heaped praise (and money) on these and works like them. The National Endowment for the Arts was so impressed with Serrano’s work they granted him $15,000 courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. For his effort, Ofili was awarded the Turner Prize, Britain’s most prestigious art award...[snip]...

Shocking the middle classes is one thing. Shocking the art establishment is quite another. And when those sensibilities largely overlap, as they do in these early, halcyon days of the Obama administration, then woe betide anyone who dares to draw outside the lines set by the media-education-government complex.

(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: art; bho44; joker; jokerposter; obama; serrano
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To: unixfox

Thank you!


21 posted on 08/06/2009 10:53:52 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away..............)
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To: Jeff Head

How long before Time sues for defamation (or copyright infringement, some other moronic issue) ?


22 posted on 08/06/2009 11:56:41 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed
They figure if their final solution passes, it won't mater anyway. At 53, I am beyond year 40 where I can expect good health care.


EZEKIEL EMANUEL (MENGLE) AND THE OBAMA-CARE FINAL SOLUTION

(Must Read)

23 posted on 08/06/2009 12:09:40 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: JimRed

Re: “How long before Time sues for defamation (or copyright infringement, some other moronic issue) ?”

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How long before Time is totally out of business? They have what, three advertisers left? There’s nothing but the covers and a few pages of copy left as it is. Same for “Newsweak.”


24 posted on 08/06/2009 12:11:32 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: ClearCase_guy
Their panites are in a bunch because in the poster, Obama LOOKS WHITE.

The men who played the joker have always been white.

Liberals see the poster and are frightened that Obama is WHITE.

They are afraid on a subliminal level that Obama might be a white man like George Bush - MAYBE A CONSERVATIVE WHITE MAN ( CAN YOU HEAR THE LIBERAL SCREAMING?)))

25 posted on 08/06/2009 1:20:04 PM PDT by GOPJ (ACORN - Losers paid to protest ...The White House has an enemies list. Are you on it?)
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To: SloopJohnB; Kartographer; ClearCase_guy; Jeff Head; La Lydia; redpoll; Joe 6-pack; B-Chan; ...
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26 posted on 08/07/2009 11:00:48 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: CaliforniaCon
Hehehe...I made some subtle changes: LOL!


WHO IS THIS JOKER CHARACTER ANYWAY?

27 posted on 08/07/2009 11:02:53 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: SloopJohnB

While I appreciate your changing the handle to jOker. I think a more accurate method would be to simply drop the “R”.


28 posted on 08/07/2009 11:06:37 AM PDT by stevestras
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To: sam_paine

Love it! But now I must “flag” you, you mean dispicable man! I am awaiting my glory in the obama administration.


29 posted on 08/07/2009 1:36:04 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: sam_paine

Uncanny how one just naturally flows into the other.


30 posted on 08/07/2009 4:59:10 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away..............)
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To: SloopJohnB

bttt


31 posted on 08/08/2009 7:33:07 AM PDT by GOPJ (ACORN - Losers paid to protest ...The White House has an enemies list. Are you on it?)
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32 posted on 08/08/2009 7:34:40 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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