"The gallery director, Eric Mézil, said it would reopen with the destroyed works on show "so people can see what barbarians can do"."
This seems like the proper thing to do.
When I heard the photo described, I thought, "That's not very clever, in fact that's kind of gross" and basically dismissed it as French people being French at each other. But it provoked a reaction from exactly the sort of people the artist was trying to expose, so I guess it was true art after all.
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Date: 2011-04-20 07:42 am (UTC)Hopefully the negatives are intact and another photograph can be produced.
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Date: 2011-04-20 02:08 pm (UTC)Religion is the bane of mankind.
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Date: 2011-04-20 02:52 pm (UTC)"The gallery director, Eric Mézil, said it would reopen with the destroyed works on show "so people can see what barbarians can do"."
This seems like the proper thing to do.
When I heard the photo described, I thought, "That's not very clever, in fact that's kind of gross" and basically dismissed it as French people being French at each other. But it provoked a reaction from exactly the sort of people the artist was trying to expose, so I guess it was true art after all.
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Date: 2011-04-20 02:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-20 03:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-21 01:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-21 01:49 pm (UTC)That's how religious idiocy *works*.