Kerry is unfit, homosexuality is a sin

Originally posted by flawd101:
15% of american indians live on reservations.

all i can think about is naive american…this whole topic is stupid. just live your life, don't worry about stupid shit like this. think about what your are having for dinner and be happy for it. don't spend life being offended by retarded little words. its only a fucking word. its not like indians are still being persecuted and killed. why don't they sue diseases like small pox that destroyed almost90% of their population…

Originally posted by hitman:

Originally posted by Jaguär:

I wonder if the animals depicted on a totem pole are offended because whatever kind of Indians you want to call them use these animals to represent the qualities of those particular animals?

We aren't talking about PETA here. Those customs are much older than anything PC or PETA.

Originally posted by hitman:
I guess YOU don't get SARCASM either. After such a debate, do you think that I would bring up PETA as a serious response. THINK! But I guess that is difficult for one, who basically writes that humans are equal to animals when comparing using derogatory terms or depictions of animals to that of using the same for a race, and saying they are similar. Let alone the fact that those symbolic depictions that you dicuss are part of a native cultural language going back thousands upon thousands of years ago and don't help to make the point you were attempting to.

Got ya loud and clear now.

Originally posted by marquee smith:
DC fine arts

Originally posted by hitman:
Oh what a bunch of bullshit! Here we go again, shut down anything against Republicans. Fucking censorship! You know damn right well if that was anyone else of any other party on that painting, it would've stayed on display.

Originally posted by econo:
Have you been to the City Museum? It focuses on DC as a city that people live in, outside of politics and the White House. Before you go screaming censorship, consider the movie Spinal Tap. Remember when they had a gig at the Air Force Ball? It didn't quite work, right? Same thing here.

Originally posted by hitman:
Oh what a bunch of bullshit! Here we go again, shut down anything against Republicans. Fucking censorship! You know damn right well if that was anyone else of any other party on that painting, it would've stayed on display.

Originally posted by hitman:
It doesn't matter. There's no concrete reason to take this down. Why was it removed? Is it because it is a nude? Well yes, but it doesn't show any parts (catch my drift). So then it is political satire, which therein lies the problem.

Originally posted by econo:
[QB] Political satire in a museum where the content is pretty much based on the neighborhoods of DC. I encourage you to go to the City Museum and be thankful there's something here related to DC's culture that doesn't deal with national politics. I'm sure they could use all the support. Then perhaps you too would scratch your head and wonder why there was a painting of George W. Bush hanging on the wall.

It is painted in the style of Edouard Manet's Olympia but Didriksen's version shows a nude Bush on a chaise lounge.

The painting was part of a show called Funky Furniture that was set up in the museum last week.

But the show, including the Bush painting, was abruptly shut down after some of the artists' themes were considered unsuitable.

Myra Peabody Gossens, a public relations consultant for the museum, said the exhibit was not what had been expected.

"The museum is not an art museum," she explained. "It gets mostly groups of children, with teachers trying to tell them something about history."

This painting was part of a show about furniture evidently. Bush in the painting is on a chaise lounge. Now beyond that obvious point, furniture can be artistic and decorative, as well as pictures on a wall can be. The show was removed after artist's themes were considered unsuitable, which sounds like censorship to me. Let alone if this museum is what you say it is, then they shouldn't be putting on these kinds of shows anyway. And for someone to make a comment that teachers bring their kids there to teach them something about history, assumes that art has nothing to do with history, and ignores the obvious point that the Bush painting does have some history to it. The painting is a visual allusion to a past artist and movement, and has to do with politics, which creates history.