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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-15-09 11:51 AM
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Portrait of Glenn Beck using bullshit as a medium.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-15-09 03:13 PM
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1. How about elephant dung?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayoralty_of_Rudy_Giuliani#Brooklyn_Museum_art_battle

In 1999, Giuliani threatened to cut off city funding for the Brooklyn Museum if it did not remove a number of works in an exhibit entitled "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection." One work in particular, The Holy Virgin Mary by Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili, featured an image of an African Virgin Mary on a canvas decorated with shaped elephant dung and pictures of female genitalia.(80) Giuliani's position was that the museum's display of such works amounted to a government-supported attack on Christianity; the artist, who claimed to be referring to African cultural tropes, commented in response, "This is all about control."

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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-15-09 03:50 PM
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2. these are great!
I especially love the Moses one, made from bamboo and wire.
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madamesilverspurs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-15-09 06:28 PM
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3. Ah, thought it was going to be a self-portrait,
seeing as how. . .
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ornotna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-15-09 07:15 PM
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4. That was great
Wonderful art, thanks.
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