Dishonest PBS Can't Describe How Obscene These Dirty Mapplethorpe Pictures Are

NewsBusters.org ^ | May 7, 2016 | Tim Graham

[DuncanWaring]

Brown and PBS find it unnecessary to discuss the objection that taxpayers shouldn't be forced to subsidize art that is obscene...

I don't even want to be forced to subsidize art that isn't obscene.

[CGASMIA68]

Mapplethorp did from HIV/AIDS.
Good

[Kaslin]

A well deserved death

[billorites]

"self-portrait with a bullwhip us his anus."

Like nobody else regrets sharing a selfie on Facebook?

[Tax-chick]

Leftists always hide the details of “gay” activity. They’re like Moslems who consider themselves “vilified” when someone reads the text of the Koran.

[Rastus]

No pictures PLEASE.

[OldNewYork]

One gauge of where an ‘art-defender’s’ mind is really at is what they think about art they don’t like, and its treatment, such as The Triumph of Civic Virtue statue that once had prominent place in front of the Queens County Courthouse. And it’s so beyond ridiculous now after having been through all the arguments in New York about ‘art’ that was things like a crucifix in urine or a portrait of Mary the Mother of God defecated on, alongside this Mapplethorpe filth, and then seeing The NYT avoid art that depicted Mohammad, etc.

[Newbomb Turk]

Another HUGE waste of money robbed from the taxpayer.

[stocksthatgoup]

It’s amazing what they call Art

[Tax-chick]

seeing The NYT avoid art that depicted Mohammad,

Funny, it would not be hard at all to describe illustrations of Mohammed.

For example, "It's a picture of a middle-aged man in traditional Arab garb." "It's a picture of a middle-aged man wearing a turban." "It's a picture of a middle-aged man with a sword, riding a camel." Etc.

[Daaave]

I remember when I first saw this guy’s work. The black and white photography was professional. But it was just a large penis next to a calla lily. Or some flower in a butt crack. Is this really noteworthy art that critics need to discuss?

[SkyPilot]

In another famous photo, he sticks a bullwhip up his rectum.

That isn't "art" - it is evil.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Only this photo seems appropriate to the article:

[SuperLuminal]

Soon to hang on the White Hut wals.

[JoeProBono]

[Theodore R.]

A lot of the American people like Mapplethorp; do they know why they do?

[Gay State Conservative]

This pig died in the very hospital for which I worked for 20+ years.That hospital was *the* epicenter,in Boston,for AIDS patients back then thanks to certain contracts that were enacted between the hospital and the largest insurer in Greater Boston.This happened before AIDS became a nationwide issue.

In the 80's and into the 90's AIDS was an absolute death sentence and I saw more such patients than I care to recall.It was a very,*very* ugly death...a death that,one could argue,,most of them brought upon themselves.

And it seems to me that this pig deserved an ugly death more than most.

[Gay State Conservative]

Ten bucks says that *this* pig was a *real* teabagger.Among other things.

[MrEdd]

And the evidence that “a lot” of Americans have even a faint notion of Robert Maplethorp’s existence would be what?