The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

I'm thankful once again to Jim who sent these humourous news bits.

Artists Gone Too Far: (1) An August Los Angeles exhibition by photographer Jill Greenberg featured 27 2- and 3-year-old kids crying, scenes that Greenberg provoked by offering each one a lollipop and then snatching it away. She admitted that the photos were "upsetting" but denied critics' accusations of child abuse. [Guardian (London), 7-26-06]

Lol, I guess you could say that creating photographic art is like taking candy from a baby.

In August, police in Mumbai, India, decided to get a professional opinion from the local JJ School of Art as to whether a downtown video and photographic exhibition was obscene and should be closed down. (The school's opinion of the show, "Tits, Clits and Elephant Dick," has not been reported.) [Times of India, 8-7-06]

What do they call that... beastiality art? Now I'm beginning to see why art schools are taking root here in BC. Pretty soon we'll find that only teenage boys are signing up for these schools to "express themselves", too.

Performance artist Kira O'Reilly's August show in Penzance, England, "Inthewrongplaceness," consisted of a naked woman cradling a dead pig for four hours at a time. O'Reilly explained, on her Web site: "The work left me with an undercurrent of pigginess (and) unexpected fantasies of mergence and interspecies metamorphoses began to flicker into my consciousness." People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals called the performance merely "sick." [Reuters, 8-18-06]

Well, if PETA hated it, then I must go see it. Sounds stupid, though. And, what the f*ck is "an undercurrent of pigginess"?