Tag: Mural
Fresco Fiasco: An Artwork in Jeopardy and a History Redressed
While artwork can be painted over, history can’t be dismantled for the sake of convenience. Erasure is endemic when it comes to censorship. Intellectual freedom is under siege when the option of destroying artwork is proposed. And there’s nothing more ahistorical and devoid of thought than a sterile freshly-painted white wall.
Blu-ey Kablooey: MOCA Mural Musses the Demarcation Between Censorship and Curatorial Consideration
The artist himself has submitted that the removal of his mural was a form of artistic censorship at its very worse and found irony in the asinine foofaraw of an institution charged with supporting and promoting art, quite conversely, destroying it.