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alliestoom


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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,430584,00.html

an art exhibit displaying "disturbing images of Iraq bombings and Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison" was recently taken down in new york. the museum claims that it glorifies terror. the exhibit is called the dialects of terror. the museum president had it taken down after the curator quit claiming that it wasn't art and didn't want to have the contorversy up in her museum.

think about this, back in world war two there were images taken of the jewish ghettos, emaciated children lying in the streets, work camps, etc. and those in no way were glorifying terror. they were presented to people hoping that someone would speak up and stop these horrible things.

do you think taking down the exhibition was the right thing to do?

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not if it would help the cause of stopping the war.

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Deffinatly not, if its an art museum, any form of art should be accpetable

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no, look at picasso's "Guernica", it depicts the horrors of war, it is an undyingly famous painting, these things are MADE to make people feel horrified, cause then the people feel inclined to change whatever is causing this horror!!!


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well it is claimed to be her museum, and if you running a museum and don't feel that the picture is appropriate, then she should have the right to take it out of the museum. I believe art is a form of expression so maybe these pieces that were created weren't meant for this particular museum, but im sure they will find another museum to be placed in. For those reason i do not believe this is a big deal.

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Absolutely not. The images show what is truly going on in the world. Just like holocaust images or images of the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam they open our eyes to experiences that we are fortunate enough to have not have dealt with. Controversy...really? These images are important to our social conscience.

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I don't think they should have been taken down. Someone wanted to show the terrible things going on in Iraq. And if you don't like it then don't look at the pictures. Isn't that a crazy idea.

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i agree with emily. it's her museum and she has the right to display what she wants. i do hope the painting can find another place to be shown, though, because people do need to see what's going on.

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i agree with emily too. it's her musem, she has the right todo with it as she pleases, and i'm pretty sure that the painting will be shown somewhere else.

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people should know what the war is all about in practice. but it is all very out of time, these days i mean

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I dont think taking down the piece was a good move
these type of things serve as a reminder to our mistakes
and thusly educate us
this "look the other way and kick it underneath the carpet" attitude is somewhat disgusting



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jessmontano


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no i do not think it was a good idea to take down
the pictures. just because it isn't pretty, happy,
colorful or any other positive adjectives doesn't
mean its not art. its not glorifying terror and if someone
doesn't like the pictures they don't have to look at them.
i think people deserve to know what is going on and if it
causes a little controversy, thats life, not everyone has the
same opinions.

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Let art be art. I believe any form of art or any form of artistic expression should be displayed, respected, and conceived as art.

And as for previously historical pictures that promote horror or terror, does this one ring a bell? http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2004/09/19/obituaries/eddie_vietnam.jpg

Yes, very disturbing, but its pictures or art like this that completely changes one's perspective on issues. In this case, the execution of this poor fellow changed the outlook of Americans in the Vietnam War.

I say its wrong to take down that poster in that museum. Although it might promote terror, horror, or any other negative emotion someone would have, but its these emotions that allows us Americans to get our heads out of the sand.



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krea


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i also agree with emilys statement of how it could just easily be placed in another museum and it might not have been right for HER museum

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I agree with drew.
How about this picture for terror?
http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/wtc-9-11.jpg

I thinks it's funny how quickly people forget about this.

-- Edited by patrickisoverrated at 18:28, 2008-10-03

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well we should promote peace not war, people get offended in everyway, so it would save contraversy by taking them down, but she shouldnt be forced to

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how does this glorify terror?
its just showing whats happening in the world...people should know.

-stuart denton

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Yeah i think that some museums just aren't right for certain types of art, and that if the curator felt that strongly about taking down the images, then it should be fine. But i do think that it is still art and deserves to be in a museum.

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