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Under Pain of Death

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Let's begin this Friday with art.  Today's New York Times has a review of the exhibit "Under Pain of Death," currently in Manhattan.  LINK?Under Pain of Death,? a show at the Austrian Cultural Forum about capital punishment, approaches its theme with such timidity and indirectness you might conclude that contemporary art is just not equipped to deal with the topic. Buried within it, however, are glimmers of what a more daring show could entail. (For the record, Austria has banned capital punishment.) One problem is that some of the works selected by the curators, Gerald Matt and Abraham Orden, are not clearly on topic. Andres Serrano?s portrait of a hooded Klansman might call to mind lynching, and Steven Cohen?s spike-heeled platform sandals with real human skulls as part of their soles might evoke human sacrifice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 01, 2008 (boomark / email).