If you are one of those who believe that people should be able to portray anything, anyhow, in any medium, to any audience, anytime, anywhere, without any restrictions at all whatsoever, as long as someone calls it “art”, then you’ll disagree with me and you’ll probably vote liberal.
But I personally think what passes for “modern art” is actually modern junk, often.
And apparently, some “artists” just don’t get where the line between decency and impropriety is drawn. Sane people all recognize when that line has been crossed, while liberals find it excruciatingly difficult. Just look at the struggle for the poor liberals in passing their new child porn law, in which “artists” claim their rights will be trampled, and liberals kowtow to them in response.
This news article is about how the Secret Service turned up at an “art” show to question the motives behind a series of “art” by an “artist” they’ve run into before. An artist who just can’t take anything seriously, except his “art” of course.
The agents turned up Thursday evening, just before the public opening of “Axis of Evil, the Secret History of Sin,” and took pictures of some of the art pieces—including “Patriot Act,” showing President Bush on a mock 37-cent stamp with a revolver pointed at his head.
Hernandez said any government involvement could come close to trampling First Amendment rights.
“It frightens me … as an artist and curator. Now we’re being watched,” Hernandez said. “It’s a new world. It’s a Big Brother world. I think it’s frightening for any artist who wants to do edgy art.”
Of course what he doesn’t tell you is this:
This isn’t the first time Hernandez has had a brush with the feds over a fake stamp. In 2001, authorities said they suspected he was behind a bogus stamp that bore a black skull and crossbones and the word “Anthrax.” It was sent through the mail during the height of the anthrax scare.
He refused to talk about the 2001 incident, when he was suspected of being involved in a fake anthrax stamp that shut down an area of Chicago’s main post office. Hernandez and another Chicago artist routinely sent fake stamps through the mail, then sold them for thousands of dollars.
Here’s one of his “artworks”.
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I wonder what he’d think if he had a daughter and we replaced the President’s head with his daughter’s. Of course his daughter wouldn’t be the President of the United States so the Secret Service probably wouldn’t get involved, but somebody would. Probably the “artist” and his lawyers.
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