Saturday, December 27, 2008

Thought on Opie

Untitled (Pearls)

One of the things I did think when seeing the Opie show, epically the mentioned Polaroids, was should children be seeing this? I didn't see any signs anywhere saying anything about the graphic nature of the images. Then it occurred to me that maybe there didn't need to be signs.

In looking up some stuff for the previous post I came across this, an article on how there was no X rating for this show.

I don't really think there should be. While I do think some people got 'more then they paid for' in then they didn't know what they were going to see when then went to the Gugg, I don't think the above mentioned article holds much water either. Yes, some will argue that some of the images are not far from porn, but I still think they are valid and do deserve to hang in the Gugg, a federally funded privet museum on the upper East Side.

And I think, and Shana may or may not agree with me, that the above images was the most sexual image of the Polaroids.


What do you guys thing?

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