Not disagreing but, which comment are you referring to?
I mean, if those guys don’t want it I’d be happy to give it a good home…
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Why can’t I ever have any good reasons to break out these…
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It’s not porn, it’s high art! Greek mythology! All done in good taste! More exclamation points!!!
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Yeah, derailing the conversation from the topic to the method used to raise the topic is a favourite tactic of folks who really don’t want to discuss the topic.
“Why, I’m all for having a conversation about racial discrimination and racialized police brutality. But instead of actually having it, I’m going to spend half an hour going on about how inappropriate it is to (kneel during the national anthem / stand in a restaurant naming black victims of police shootings / hold a demonstration march that impedes motor trafffic / etc.).”
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Oh but if I went ‘round sayin’ I was Emperor, just because some
moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
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Ah, crap, you did it first. Sorry. Didn’t see.
British art museum removes a famous 1869 painting
and gets millions of people to look at it today who otherwise would not have.
I think we’re all being double-reverse Streisanded.
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BBC says it’ll be back up in the morning.
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Who can keep track with all my rambling… I don’t even know.
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Maybe it’s a sly commentary on US reactionary culture. Hylas was a hero of a slave holding society, and arguably Hercules’ catamite.
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They’re back!
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Ah, so here is the true reason for the removal.
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the whole episode was a stroke of genius on the part of their marketing department.
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Pretty sure they got what was coming to them as well. Eventually.
That’s about as shocking as The Memo™.
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Some of Balthus’ work is a bit creepy, and sometimes viewed by request only. But did they remove that work, and why pick on an unrelated Victorian piece?
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Hehe, time to get drowned and eaten, hylas…
cough Am I the only one who sees the comedy in this painting?
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