Flag cup with 'F' at Carnegie Museum draws complaints

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 7/17/2007 | Craig Smith

[chief_bigfoot]

The arts and croissant crowd at it again. Of course with funding help from the Heinz Endowments, and the National Endowment for the Arts among others....

[gridlock]

Is there anything more boring and predictable than an “artist” who tries to shock our sensibilities by being vulgar?

[the_Watchman]

Odd, but they seem to have the common sense not to use the 'N' word! These folks are for "freedom of speech" as long as the proper people are offended.

[Caipirabob]

a href="http://www.communistgoals.com/goals/goals.htm">The communist goals entered into the Congressional record by Albert Herlong, Jr. (a Floridian who served in Congress from 1949-69 Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35; January 10, 1963 From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen ).

Number 23:

Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

Number 22:

Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substitute shapeless, awkward, and meaningless forms.

[Caipirabob]

The communist goals entered into the Congressional record by Albert Herlong, Jr. (a Floridian who served in Congress from 1949-69 Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35; January 10, 1963 From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen ).

Number 23:

Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

Number 22:

Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substitute shapeless, awkward, and meaningless forms.

[trumandogz]

Candice is offended way too easily.

[drew]

No, there isn’t. There is nothing more pathetic, either. Of course, all you have to do is wrap mediocrity in fashionable America-bashing and, voila, instant credibility.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

That’s right. Can you imagine if a conservative artist made a replica of the AIDS quilt with the word “Faggot” scrawled across it? Do you think the liberals would be saying, “What a wonderful example of free speech?”

Hell, no!

[wideawake]

My, how transgressive. (Suppresses yawn).

[PBRSTREETGANG]

The “artist” didn’t have the cajones to fill the glass up with urine and drop a page of the Koran into it?

Wonder why not?

(What an “artistic” wimp.)

[sergeantdave]

Grab the cup, smash it on the ground and call it freedom of speech.

[Francis McClobber]

“Grab the cup, smash it on the ground and call it freedom of speech.”

You could probably get away with it if you called it performance art instead.

[mewzilla]

Click on the link for the museum's info on the exhibit and its underwriters...

Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America

[P8riot]

Nothing that a framing hammer won’t fix.

[bmwcyle]

Cultural Marxism

[PapaBear3625]

Or how about an artwork that mocks Mohammad?

[Moonman62]

It’s a temper tantrum from a talentless lefty.

[Sax]

Is there anything more boring and predictable than an “artist” who tries to shock our sensibilities by being vulgar?

The original prototype, "Doodie-head," didn't illicit the level of shock desired.

[Theo]

You can leave a comment for the museum here: http://www.cmoa.org/root/contact.asp

I did.

[euroman]

Andy Warhol anyone!