Posted on 07/17/2007 1:35:58 AM PDT by chief_bigfoot
Candice Moinet and her sister were shocked to see the F-word scrawled on a glass cup decorated like an American flag at a Carnegie Museum of Art exhibit.
"We were really disgusted. It kind of ruined it for us," she said of the trip they made over the Fourth of July holiday from Greensburg to the museum in Oakland.
The "Freedom of Speech Cup," by Richard Marquis, will remain a part of the Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! exhibit, despite their complaints, said Sarah Nichols, Carnegie Museum's adjunct curator who organized the glass exhibit.
The 3-inch-high cup is accompanied by a velvet cover decorated in similar fashion. The four-letter word is repeated in a white stripe as part of its design.
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Is there anything more boring and predictable than an “artist” who tries to shock our sensibilities by being vulgar?
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.
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.
Candice is offended way too easily.
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.
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!
My, how transgressive. (Suppresses yawn).
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.)
Grab the cup, smash it on the ground and call it freedom of speech.
“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.
Nothing that a framing hammer won’t fix.
Or how about an artwork that mocks Mohammad?
It’s a temper tantrum from a talentless lefty.
The original prototype, "Doodie-head," didn't illicit the level of shock desired.
Andy Warhol anyone!
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