Voluminous Versailles vagina viciously violated – again The controversial voluminous vagina adorning the gardens of the Palace of Versailles has been vandalised for the second time. dirty_corner_shutterstock_648 Dirty Corner. Pic: Frederic Legrand – COMEO / Shutterstock.com The work by Anish Kapoor – entitled "Dirty Corner" but popularly known as the "Queen's Vagina" – was …
Is this a translation fail ... did someone see autuer, and not grasp the subtleties of nuanced meaning.
"Culprits" would have been more appropriate. "Perpetrators" even better.
"Authors" bestows a degree of respectability on the criminals.
e2a: I did briefly look to see if I could find an original report, to see what Mr. Hollande actually said. But then I really couldn't be bothered.
Hollande didn't really say very much
"Le président François Hollande «dénonce fermement» la dégradation de l’oeuvre qui a été «couverte d’inscriptions haineuses et antisémites», a indiqué l’Elysée dans un communiqué."
It was Fleur Pellerin ( Minister of Culture) that was present...
Here is the article from liberation.fr, the comments from the usual ministers amount to not much more than the typical diatribe using any all of the following words "shock, horror, injustice, antisemitism, scandal", none of it appears to be even remotely sincere..
That's my problem with so much 'art'. It's paid for by the taxpayer and so the 'artist' can get away with any old shit because the public sector will spend it and doesn't really care and the artist knows they can fob off their d-grade ideas and if the people hate it, well, that's just the proles and they never appreciate 'art'.
Back to the good old days, please, where the super rich are the patrons and not the general public. We'd soon see a whittling out of 25ft tall buttplugs and dirty beds.
re: "so much 'art [is] paid for by the taxpayer and so the 'artist' can get away with any old shit" -- sounds like a sweet gig to me, how do I get in on this action? I have some "yard art" that I am quite confident is a most appropriate metaphor to enliven and humanize any upcoming future public works project, enquiries welcome ....
Gigantic gallic gash gains grim graffiti - my entry in the El Reg alternative headlines competition.
So there was that giant inflatable butt plug deployed in France a while back, and now this supersized snatch thing; are we seeing some sort of pattern here?
are we seeing some sort of pattern here?
Mais oui, absolutement:
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