You are a bank teller at Capital One’s branch in Chinatown. A man walks up to you and gives you a note saying, “This is A ROBBERY—LARGE Bills—NO DYE PACKS/No GPS.” He also takes out a pink and silver video camera and points it at you. You give him money
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The exploratory act of taking drugs to create art could be classified as a criminal engagement whether for attainment, use, or possession of certain illicit drugs. The relationship between drugs and crime has a long history. Drugs can be connected to crime in multiple ways. For example, the immediate effect
Anytime people think or speak about terrorism, art as a topic would be the last thing on their minds. Apparently, there is a high relation between the artistic expression concept and the events of terrorism whereby if one can relate terrorists’ acts and performance in a theatre it is easy
DISCLAIMER: Video is graphic, although censored, does display partial nudity. This is Milo Moire, a Swiss performance artist. She is a feminist that promotes that women choose when and how they should be touched, which is what motivated the piece above. In London she was arrested (Full Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3657439/Controversial-performance-artist-arrested-inviting-strangers-touch-naked-breasts-genitals-Trafalgar-Square-women-s-rights.html) for
The Ecce Homo Painting is a botched restoration by Cecilia Jimenez. She saw that the picture of Jesus was fading, so she decided to take it upon herself to restore the painting. As you can see, she did a terrible job and many people accused her of vandalism. She later
Is censorship ever justified and acceptable? Cuban artist Erik Ravelo created a controversial photography project titled “Los Intocables” which means “The Untouchables”. This project is designed to point out and discuss the topic of violence against children across the globe. The art project consists of many photographs in which each
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.
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
This article discusses the opening of an art exhibit by the name of “Confronting Truths: Wake Up!” at the Gallery Guichard in Chicago. This exhibit was showcased in light of the shootings of unarmed black men by police officers, specifically the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. There were also
The Importance of Remembering: Orlando Shooting Victims to be Memorialized in New Haven Artspace Exh
http://www.nhregister.com/arts-and-entertainment/20160720/artspace-in-new-haven-to-open-exhibit-dedicated-to-orlando-shooting-victims Recently the media has been contending over whether or not bringing attention to horrific acts of violence is actually a way to encourage similar violence, or terrorist acts. Supporters of this notion assert that when the media covers tragedies, such as the Orlando Pulse shooting, they celebrate the shooter’s