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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox affiliate censors breasts of $179m Picasso painting on air
Fox affiliate censors breasts of $179m Picasso painting on air
A local Fox news station has censored the breasts on a cubist painting by Pablo Picasso, prompting bemusement and ridicule from art critics and audiences.
Reporting on the record-setting, $179m auction of Picassos Women of Algiers (Version O), New Yorks Fox 5, blurred the breasts of three women in the painting, despite the stylized and distinctly unrealistic portrayal of those women mostly through blocky shapes.
The network did not censor a pair of buttocks.
The New York channel falls under the Fox umbrella network, owned by the media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Observers, sometimes conflating the affiliate with the Fox News cable channel, derided the censorship of art.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/14/fox-news-picasso-painting-censorship
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Fox affiliate censors breasts of $179m Picasso painting on air (Original Post)
Liberal_in_LA
May 2015
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samsingh
(17,625 posts)1. fox is now like the taliban
marble falls
(58,866 posts)2. Oh jees..........
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)3. Fox is such a joke. Too bad some take Fox seriously and don't get what Fox is. n/t
onehandle
(51,122 posts)4. Why aren't those female faces veiled!!?
That Fox affiliate is attacking family values with this suggestive display!
And are those buttocks!
valerief
(53,235 posts)5. When are they going to change their name to The Clown Network? nt
Recursion
(56,582 posts)6. Was it Ashcroft who covered the breasts on the statue of Justice?
You know, the statue whose bare breast symbolizes the fact that Justice need not be ashamed because she is on the side of Right?
Yeah.
Art history should probably taught more.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)7. Somewhere, Picasso is laughing his ass off!