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Harry, here in the US people make the distinction between what is tax-funded and what is not.
If this fellow had displayed his painting (or print in this case) in a private gallery, it is very unlikely that there would have been a protest. For the most part, people don't care what happens on private property.
In fact, there is no indication that this work has never been on display before. If it was, then where were the protests? The protests arise when the work is at a tax-funded facility.
In recent years there were a couple of tax-funded museums in New York (including Brooklyn in at least one case) where the works of "art" included a crucifix resting in a jar of urine (entitled Piss Christ) and another where a portrait of Mary had been splattered with fecal material. I am not aware of "art" attacking non-Christian religions being displayed in American tax-funded galleries.
Now here's my editorial: In a sane world sacrilegious junk would not be considered art. In America today, what is considered art is merely whatever the galleries' curators say it is. It is therefore my opinion that the curators (even more than the "artists") should be condemned.
Now let me make this point. If you don't think there is a bias in the US media against Christianity, why do you think that so many news reports fail to show the work of art and fail to adequately describe what it is that the protesters find objectionable?
By the way, some here seem to think that I am condoning what the woman did. I am not. I only made my statement above to explain the situation to foreigners not familiar with the current situation in the US.
Now let me turn the tables. I am a little bit aware of Nazi art in which the Jews were displayed as evil people with sinister grins and large hook noses. I will guess that this anti-semitic art was displayed in tax-funded German galleries.
Do you folks support that? Would you folks think that it is OK for an American tax-funded gallery to display contemporary anti-semitic "art"? Would you condemn a Jew who took matters into his own hands as quickly as you condemn the woman in Loveland, CO?
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