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The NSW government will refer a magazine featuring a naked child on the cover to the Australian Classification board.
Art Monthly Australia magazine sparked fresh controversy over naked images of children by publishing an image of a six-year-old girl on its cover to protest against the recent furore over similar pictures by artist Bill Henson.
NSW police seized a number of Mr Henson’s photographs featuring near-naked or naked children in recent months, but were returned to a Sydney art gallery without charges being laid.
The July edition of Art Monthly Australia published the cover image in protest at the “hysteria” over Mr Henson’s work.
It also includes several provocative photos of children posing naked in adult jewellery as well as naked teenage girls.
NSW community services minister Kevin Greene said the images had been inappropriately hijacked for political mileage.
“I will refer this to the ACB tomorrow, and the community also should let (the Board) know what they think,” Mr Greene told reporters in Sydney.
Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell labelled the publication a “provocative publicity stunt” and called for a review of Arts Council’s funding for the magazine.
He said the average parent faced strict regulation of photographing their children at school events, and would be frustrated by the actions of the magazine.
“I understand they are in receipt of funding from the Arts Council and I assume there are procedures where that can be reviewed by Mr Rudd and his ministers,” Mr O’Farrell said.
“I notice (Premier) Morris Iemma hasn’t ruled them out receiving state government funds in the future.
“The public are furious about the double standards, I think taxpayers are angry when they see funds used in this way and to review it, I think, would be sensible.”
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Fucking perves.

If you wanna see the picture, http://www.artmonthly.org.au/artnotes.asp?area=Editorial&issueNumber=211
 

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Funny you should call them perves but then in the next sentence invite everyone in this board to look at the image. Oh the irony!
 

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Oh well they wanted to be "provacative", "edgy" and to shock the middle class. Now they've got their wish.
 

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JaredR said:
Funny you should call them perves but then in the next sentence invite everyone in this board to look at the image. Oh the irony!
LMAO! Yeah, that is pretty funny.
 

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what idiots, it completley derails their whole argument.

i didnt mind the henson work, and thought it had ARTISTIC MERIT, this on the other hand is putting a 6 year old girl in a at least mildly suggestive pose, with no artistic merit whatsoever.
 

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zimmerman8k said:
Ok I don't agree with subsidising the arts.

But if you're going to do it, at least do it properly.

It's pretty absurd to say "hey we want to encourage art," but then say that the taxpayer has a right to demand nice sanitized art that won't offend them. It defeats the purpose of art.
The bar is pretty high on what will offend the Australian public though.
 

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zimmerman8k said:
Haha. Well that's highly subjective. I still think people are way too easily offended.

However, even those that aren't offended can still be shocked and challenged by good art.
I know right?!?! People complain about a chef who swears 88 times in a time period of 44 minutes!! I mean, WTFF?
 

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zimmerman8k said:
Haha. Well that's highly subjective. I still think people are way too easily offended.

However, even those that aren't offended can still be shocked and challenged by good art.
Seriously, what is outside the bounds these days? Off the top of my head I can think of only a few things: stuff that border on child pornography, highly explicit Robert Maplethorpe style photography and stuff like piss christ.

I think a lot of the artists who protest against "censorship" in modern day Australia are a bit of a joke. There are fewer restrictions on art then ever before. Heaps of great artists (in fact 99.9 % of them) worked in times when there was incomparably more censorship then there is now and managed to express themselves.

There aren't even a handful of Australian artists who would be producing great art if it wasn't for the philistine Australian public.
 

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The people who think it's erotic are the ones with a problem.
 

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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23980576-662,00.html

Bravehearts executive director Hetty Johnston branded the publication of the photos in the magazine "sexual exploitation of children'', and said artistic merit should not override the rights and protection of a child.

"When those two things collide we have to err with the children, it has to be in the best interests of the children,'' Ms Johnston told the Nine Network today.

"I can't see in any circumstance where taking a photograph of a naked child is in the child's best interests.

"We need laws to make it clear, the laws are flaky and the laws aren't able to protect children.

I know we've got at least one Hetty Johnston fan on bos ;)
 

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I don't think the image they used is suggestive at all. Not a great piece of art but I don't think its as 'bad' as Henson's work.

Media beat-up.

Although I also wanna say the kids dad (was on the news) looks like a bit of a nutcase. Interesting shirt and bow tie he was wearing...
 

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Mumma said:
I don't think the image they used is suggestive at all. Not a great piece of art but I don't think its as 'bad' as Henson's work.

Media beat-up.

Although I also wanna say the kids dad (was on the news) looks like a bit of a nutcase. Interesting shirt and bow tie he was wearing...
One of those artsy types who want to be different.
 

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