WaPo Art Reviewer: Opposing Tax-Funded ‘Piss Christ’ = Fascism
The Washington Post knows how to ruin a Christian's Sunday morning. Jason Edward Kaufman, a regular Sunday art reviewer for the Post (even if he's described by the paper merely as a “freelance writer”), was apparently assigned to review a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that looks back on the “so-called culture wars of the late 70s through the 90s, when social conservatives sought to prevent tax money from supporting art that dealt with homosexuality, feminism, racism, or other contentious issues.” It's obvious from the start that the reviewer is being dishonest in suggest the conservatives are political, but the artists and their supporters aren't political, they're just for freedom of expression. The exhibit is “a chance for younger viewers to learn about previous clashes between religious conservatives and advocates of freedom of expression in the arts.”
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on May 1, 2011. Filed under