Blatant Audience Pandering at it's Worst
Evidently breastfeeding is just too darn controversial to show as art in public. Boingboing previously talked in this post about video artist Amy Jenkins who was invited to create an artwork inspired by Salvatore Ferragamo's 5th Avenue shoe store. The company then decided that her artwork was "distasteful" because it showed Amy's daughter breastfeeding and then falling asleep. (More background here.) Now, using a plasma display loaned to her by a BB reader, Amy is finally showing the piece, entitled The Audrey Samsara, in NYC at her solo show at the Kustera/Tilton Gallery. The opening is tonight and the show will run through March 26.
Link to Amy Jenkins site
Because remember; it's okay to show people getting eviscerated with forty foot showers of orange-red blood in any media, but a little boobie will turn the kiddies into raving psychopaths. Because, remember We have to Protect the Children.
All you get from protecting the children is a bunch of weak adults. - I can't remember who said this. Bill Hicks? George Carlin?
Most of writeup and links courtesy of Boingboing