Art and Politics

[tooblue]

Pissed-off artist adds statue of urinating dog next to ‘Fearless Girl’

http://nypost.com/2017/05/29/pissed-off-artist-adds-statue-of-urinating-dog-next-to-fearless-girl/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/052917pissed_fearless_girl2gsb1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=600

[Devildog]

Ok I'll be the first to add to your stupid ass thread. So... lame weak and sad. Please continue... I'm sure we will all be enthralled.

[NorthwestUteFan]

Ok I'll be the first to add to your stupid ass thread. So... lame weak and sad. Please continue... I'm sure we will all be enthralled.
Knock it off DD.

[LA Ute]

Hey DD, "Art and Politics" is a great topic for a thread. Live and let live, bro.

[tooblue]

I'll put this here because I am not sure where else to put it:

The Words Men and Women Use When They Write About Love

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/07/upshot/modern-love-what-we-write-when-we-write-about-love.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

[tooblue]

Found this article, and obviously quite like much of the imagery. In the interest of full disclosure, the artist of the image I have linked also created the original iconic Obama Hope poster and nearly went to jail for copyright infringement: (link to article about his indiscretion below the image).

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/shepard-fairey-on-political-art/

https://s3.amazonaws.com/tci-assets/uploads/Fruits-Of-Our-Labor-Canvas%20copy.jpg

Shepard Fairey Is Fined and Sentenced to Probation in ‘Hope’ Poster Case

https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/shephard-fairey-is-fined-and-sentenced-to-probation-in-hope-poster-case/

[tooblue]

Saw this and it made me smile:

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[Dwight Schr-Ute]

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[Rocker Ute]

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You guys may not know but I am probably the leading collector of John McNaughton paintings.

You know the poem “The Touch of the Masters Hand” and how it has to give an explanation at the end of what it means? That is every John McNaughton painting.


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[tooblue]

You guys may not know but I am probably the leading collector of John McNaughton paintings.

You know the poem “The Touch of the Masters Hand” and how it has to give an explanation at the end of what it means? That is every John McNaughton painting.


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“The ‘Left’ Loves Art” Is the Brilliantly Dumb Meme Sean Hannity Deserves

https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/the-left-loves-art-is-the-brilliantly-dumb-meme-sean-hannity-deserves.html

[tooblue]

“The ‘Left’ Loves Art” Is the Brilliantly Dumb Meme Sean Hannity Deserves

https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/the-left-loves-art-is-the-brilliantly-dumb-meme-sean-hannity-deserves.html

Here's a Kickstarter campaign some might want to get behind:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/560181280/trump-troll-doll-sculpture-by-chuck-williams/

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/trump-nude-troll-doll-chuck-williams-2.jpg

[Dwight Schr-Ute]

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[concerned]

The video is so bad that none of us could believe it yesterday. Then, it made Colbert.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqiQCNDc0Bk

[tooblue]

This artist’s cartoon about school shootings is striking a chord with thousands of people

https://www.thelily.com/this-artists-cartoon-about-school-shootings-is-striking-a-chord-with-thousands-of-people/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/IXgjaEPjIqyXNaWXRN-q_ANJjVk=/1400x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-thelily-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/DY6LMBWKBBESZNPGUE2DNPBLJE.jpg

[tooblue]

Lynching memorial leaves some quietly seething: 'Let sleeping dogs lie'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/28/lynching-memorial-backlash-montgomery-alabama

Reminds me a little of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Interestingly, there are armed military guards at the entrance of the museum, sporting body amor and machine guns:

https://www.jmberlin.de/en