Art and crime are often found together as expressing oneself often doesn’t align with the law, and sometimes defying the law furthers the meaning of the work, in this case it is a bit of both. In São Paulo (Brazil), you will find that entire sections of the city have
Day: October 26, 2024
The freedom to express oneself through speech, beliefs, and art is one of the cornerstones of the western world. Historically, censorship of expression has been practiced by corrupt or authoritarian governments to inhibit individual freedoms. Encouraging creativity is important for the beating heart of every society. While these ideas of
Pornography was legalized in Denmark on July 1st, 1969. One of the first countries to allow the film genre to proliferate legally. A triumph in the world of nymphomaniacs and sexual deviants everywhere (well, at least in Denmark). It was time to celebrate this “sex”-cellent news. Jens Jørgen Thorsen had
Damien Herst forces us to look death in the eye with his art piece from 1991, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Simply put, the discomforting piece consists of a fourteen foot tiger shark stationed in a large tank of formaldehyde. To the eye, it
Two films, both alike in dignity, one releasing exactly one week after the other, of the same length, down to the minute, each costing upwards of 100 million dollars to produce, failed to turn a profit after a flood of scathing reviews on their respective opening weekend. The consistency and