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cali

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34. The op is not about the artistic merit of Tunick's work

Sat May 14, 2016, 08:14 AM

May 2016

I like some of his photos quite a bit, but that's irrelevant. I do think his explanation for the photo is annoying, pretentious and unwittingly sexist.

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The naked women photo at the Repub convention pisses me off. [View all] cali May 2016 OP

The Jezebel comment section romanic May 2016 #1

Do you disagree with the comments I posted? cali May 2016 #2

Not really Major Nikon May 2016 #40

Rince Prebis (sp) Probably Requested This As A Way To.... global1 May 2016 #3

I dont think it was munch of a statement. Katashi_itto May 2016 #4

Snap. Exactly. cali May 2016 #7

I direct movies. It looked pretty evident right off the bat. Thanks for the link! I wasn' familia Katashi_itto May 2016 #8

+1 n/t n2doc May 2016 #13

I agree with you. DLevine May 2016 #5

Get 100 men to pose naked if you want to get the Republicans Really Excited :) . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2016 #6

Posing in bathroom stalls. snort May 2016 #27

Meh, everyone is a critic n/m ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2016 #9

It's not about artistic merit. cali May 2016 #10

I wish it would be 100 nude trans women. Vinca May 2016 #11

Well, after going on google to view the images and jerk it a few times MillennialDem May 2016 #39

I'm with you. Objectifying women IMO. Screw that . apcalc May 2016 #12

black out porkified May 2016 #14

looks like it is Pissing OFF All The RIGHT People.. stonecutter357 May 2016 #15

No, it's pissing off the LEFT people. nt DLevine May 2016 #17

no it's not... stonecutter357 May 2016 #18

It's pissing off feminists cali May 2016 #19

all artists should be doing something else - like whatever you pick. stonecutter357 May 2016 #20

Silly strawman cali May 2016 #24

who exactly made you the interpreter of art for the rest of us? stonecutter357 May 2016 #25

Shockingly, I'm expressing my opinion on a board expressly designed cali May 2016 #29

So-called "artists" always try to piss off people to seem "edgy" 7962 May 2016 #23

Air conditioning pisses off feminists Major Nikon May 2016 #41

"it's both a distraction and pointless" JustABozoOnThisBus May 2016 #16

I don't care one way or the other - except ... Chemisse May 2016 #21

Yes, this. smirkymonkey May 2016 #42

But its yuge! World class! Never been done before with more than 99 women even at the Trump Casinos! marble falls May 2016 #22

It'll piss off the religious nuts Matrosov May 2016 #26

And Tunick has been doing work of this sort for decades, over 90 public installations..... Bluenorthwest May 2016 #28

This message was self-deleted by its author rjsquirrel May 2016 #30

And yet none of the comments in thread indicate any knowledge of the artist's work Bluenorthwest May 2016 #33

The op is not about the artistic merit of Tunick's work cali May 2016 #34

This message was self-deleted by its author rjsquirrel May 2016 #37

The comment I responded to here is about 'modern art' being terrible. Bluenorthwest May 2016 #38

Sounds like another "epic, stunning statement" I "need to understand." LuvLoogie May 2016 #31

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. Agnosticsherbet May 2016 #32

One more time, this isn't about artistic merit. cali May 2016 #35

I, too, like OW. Agnosticsherbet May 2016 #36

I'm not sure how you can reconcile that Major Nikon May 2016 #43

Ridiculous and irrelevant JHB May 2016 #44

I feel you. Its dumb. apnu May 2016 #45

my main concern is what'll happen if the sun's out and the mirrors aren't all perfectly parallel MisterP May 2016 #46