Draping History. Ashcroft orders semi-nude statues covered.

ABC News ^ | January 25, 2002 | Beverley Lumpkin

[Rain-maker]

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[John Jorsett]

Pretty funny.

[Sci Fi Guy]

You are right!!! Hanity and Combs did a show on this a few weeks ago. If I remember correctly, The Justice Dept has been using those drapes for years. But they were renting the drapes. Someone thought that it would be cheaper to just buy the drapes outright. So that's what they did. Ashcroft is being attacked because he is a religious conservative.

[Timesink]

Just posted: National Review: ABC News FABRICATED Ashcroft "Cover the Statue's Breasts" Story!!

[philman_36]

And it turns out that they were indeed ordered by someone in the attorney general's office, who delivered the request to the Justice Management Division and asserted it was the attorney general's desire. Sure enough, there it is. So many articles about it and I missed this one, the key to it all.
Oh well. The photographers are still the main culprits in all of this.

[Demidog]

Interesting: The Bush administration is covering the "Spirit" of Justice with a drapery because it would be better if we didn't see it....

[_Jim]

National Review: ABC News FABRICATED Ashcroft "Cover the Statue's Breasts" Story!!

Thanks for the update ... it's so nice to know that the legacy of manufactured news continues in the American media...

[parsifal]

In law, we refer to these as "Revised Statues." -----[if you don't get it, read it again carefully] parsy the high-class punster.

[Young Opinion]

I'm sorry, because maybe I am young, but I am an artist, that is my life. Art is the product of expressed emotions or the way something is symbolized through a visual format. Justicve equals truth, and nudity is a symbol of truth. I would never order a piece of art covered, especially if it's not my place to decide on a matter like that. If I didn't won't photographs of myself with it or immature angles of it, I'd stay away from it and make public or media-allowed events to be held in a separate room. Art was not created for limits such as offensiveness or nudity.

[Smile-n-Win]

Perhaps "offensive" was not the right word; I should have said "unsuitable for public display." Naked human bodies should not be displayed in public.

If you create a sculpture or painting that shows a naked human body in private, out of your own money, and sell it in private, that's fine with me. If you buy such a work of art and display it on your private property, that's just as fine. In government buildings, however, there should be no nudity on display.

You might be interested in this thread, BTW: Lights out in an empty room: Can the decadent art world be brought back to life?

[galt-jw]

there is a difference between art and gratuitous nudity. guess he doesnt have enough work as it is, but has to play dress up with beautiful, artistic nudes.