In 1999, Chris Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary gained controversy where it showed a black-descendant Virgin Mary surrounded in elephant feces and pornographic images in the background. New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani expressed outraged and threatened to cease funding of the Brooklyn Museum where the painting was being held.
Day: July 24, 2016
You probably have heard the term “flash mob” where a large group of people randomly gather together at a certain place and time within a short period of time and quickly disburse. The group usually have the goal to deliver a specific message or just merely to act out pointless
A group called Improve Everywhere, founded by Charlie Todd in 2001, was created to surprise people by these positive pranks. Over the years they have done over 150 pranks which they refer to as “mission.” All of their pranks are harmless and are meant to make people smile, yet in
Recently in a criminology class that I have been taking at school, my professor asked us why do people do crime. He put up various pictures from recent history and asked us what, in this case, made these people do crime. One of these scenarios was the attack on the
Although this story happens in the movie “Big Eyes” (Directed by Tim Burton), claiming copyrights to the artists who created the original arts is very important. In the movie, Margaret is a talented artist who got the job as painting illustrator after the divorce with her husband. She also paints
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German Nazi lieutanent colonel and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He was responsible for facilitating and managing the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps during World War II. In May of 1960, he was captured in Argentina by Mossad,
http://www.vice.com/read/this-woman-turned-her-collection-of-unsolicited-dick-pics-into-an-art-show I recently found an article about a woman who turned her collection of unsolicited dick pictures into an art show, and it made me wonder if getting unsolicited pictures is sexually offended. We have entered an interesting age where a lot of human interactions occur through electronic devices such
The documentary Making a Murderer follows the life of a man named Steven Avery from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. In 1985, despite there being no physical evidence tying him to the crime and also having an alibi, he was arrested and convicted of the sexual assault and attempted murder of a
Mark Landis’s story shows that if you are a philanthropist, you are not really committing a crime by forging art. Landis forged art by numerous artists from Picasso to Walk Disney for 30 years and donated them to various museums. It only took him a few hours to forge one