Following the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s decision to ignore a petition to remove a painting reportedly “romanticizing the sexualization of a child”, Jonathan Jones argues it is right to debate art, but fascist to try and censor it.
In 1989, Republican senators Jesse Helms and Alfonse D’Amato launched an attack on artistic freedom. They railed against Piss Christ, a photograph by Andres Serrano of a cheap crucifix in a tank of the artist’s own urine. The red and yellow tints of Serrano’s piss ... Keep reading on The Guardian
In 1989, Republican senators Jesse Helms and Alfonse D’Amato launched an attack on artistic freedom. They railed against Piss Christ, a photograph by Andres Serrano of a cheap crucifix in a tank of the artist’s own urine. The red and yellow tints of Serrano’s piss ... Keep reading on The Guardian