I say post the pictures on flickr. Its the new way to reach everyone out there. Let the audience judge..this is not really boundary pushing art is it? Nudity in art has been around since our forefathers shacked up in caves.
Sorry ole Hussain is roaming in some god forsaken desert because of someone who has never been to a gallery, let alone seen a work of art is protesting his work. I heard an interview with a fundamentalist leader in NYC (could barely speak a grammatically correct sentence let alone get a clear idea across) saying he had never seen the pieces of Hussain, yet protesting. I think the program was CBC's Dispatches (cbc.ca/dispatches). There is currently a debate in the arts world on the 'dressing up' Susan Mogul art video on utube ...see the links below. Note, the subject is 'mature' http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/arts-news/youtube-censors-art/ http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D-Jxwi2l7NrE On 29 July 2010 10:02, Dr.Nandkumar Kamat <nandka...@...> wrote: > “nudism” in Dr. Pereira’s paintings and Laxman’s ‘Last supper’ Carton > > In which century are we living? > What is superior?. The creative impulse of the artist who has no axe to > grind with any religions of human origin OR the label of religion which is > stuck on his forehead? * * * Encounter hints (and more) of the Goan life in Zanzibar, Poona, Mombasa, Basra, Dubai, and even Nuvem and Colva, Sanvordem and colonial Goa. Learn of experiences that shaped Goans worldwide. Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* now available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Ask a friend to buy it, before it gets sold out. Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
