Drew3000 is on vacation for the next few days. In the mean time, here’s Raquel Welch crucified on a cross:
Raquel Welch (on cross) by Terry O'Neill.
A steal at $9,300.00 for the Framed 40 x 40 print.
Via: San Francisco Art Exchange : Gallery of The Popular Image.
Porn?
You know, I admit I’m a sucker for a censored work, or even an attempted-censored work. Film, movie, music whatever. It just makes me want to know so much more about what the message was when there’s someone trying to keep me from accessing it.
More so when the intimidating group comes from religious circles. It’s not likely I would have waded through Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses if there hadn’t been a fatwa issued. Tough for Salman, but I can just imagine the the publishing house’s marketing team clicking their heels over the noting that a religious nutter had done their work for them.
No, I suppose it’s not a cool admission. sort of like admitting you weren’t into some punk band back when they were with Sub-Pop Records.
Similarly, with other media, The Last Temptation of Christ, wouldn’t have watched that unless there was a bible-thumping drumbeat trying to ward people off of it. It doesn’t really matter whether it’s an Ayatollah or a vice presidential candidate with penchant for trying to get books tossed out of the local library, these people have no background as literary critics.
So it’s interesting to me that an author of a book that is the subject of attempted censorship by religious zealots is herself turning on critics of her work, accusing them of stocking violence, just by criticizing her work.
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Taking a gander at the last two posts, it seems to me this blog is lacking a little in colors that are not black or red. And black is not so much a color as a #000000 that reflects no color.
So, taking a cue from a friend of mine who recently posted his top Northland Poster Collective posters on his socialist network page, I thought I’d rip off the idea and do likewise here. I had sort of let the Collective drop off the map for a while until I saw that list. Based in Minnesota, it’s a fantastic resource for iconic revolutionary imagery and great design inspiration. Plus, they pretty much open their entire library for people to incorporate into their own web works.
UPDATE: Welcome to this blog’s most popular post. Since the UN-backed trial of the remaining Khmer Rouge leaders started in February 2009, this posts hits jumped. If you’ve landed here, leave a comment about what you’re looking for, about the trial, or about the genocide itself.
Vann Nath’s art, which saved him from the Khmer Rouge, is back in the news with the charges of crimes against humanity lodged against one of Pol Pot’s thugs, Kaing Guek Eav “Duch” over his part in the genocide.
Incarcerated in the Khmer Rouge’s secret prison at Tuol Sleng, run by Duch who was a teacher (go figure) by trade, Vann was beaten, tortured and starved but escaped death by painting pictures of Pol Pot.
Sort of using art in the way Leni Riefenstahl did, only it was for survival as opposed to crass opportunism. After his escape, Vann turned his brush toward painting the horrors of the Khmer Rouge’s regime, the results of which now hang at his former prison, which has been turned into a memorial.
Apparently if you don’t let people see it, it can’t exist. At least that’s the theory that apologists for the occupaton of Palestine enjoy maintaining. Boston Public Library recently reported it’s first ever art theft when some one(s) made off with a photo exhibit created by children from Balata refugee camp in Nablus, West Bank. — Link
Let’s get this straight now; a hate crime is a deed motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice. The Anti-Defamation League has been working on hate crimes in the Boston area for some time, dubbing Massachusetts as “the fifth highest in the nation for hate crimes.” Let’s hope they help get to the bottom of this as well.
The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project presents
Inter-cultural Exchange through Art:
A Collection of Work from the Palestinian Artists’ Association in Rafah, Gaza,
Yusuf Subeh, Bisan Umar Atteya, Hamza Jamal Mansur, Anwar Ismail
Anwar Yehia, Hiba Ibrahim al Jazzar, Rim Abu Al Rus, Bahir Hemeid
Qishta, and Mustafa Al Bahnasawi
And Pen and ink drawings by Olympia artist Will Hewitt
Reception and talk: Saturday, March 31st, 2-4 PM,
Traditions Café and World Folk Art
300 5th Avenue SW, Olympia
All proceeds from the sale of the Palestinian art and Hewitt’s drawings will benefit the Palestinian Artists’ Association in Rafah.
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Interview with Gaza Flotilla participants
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