Richard Jones' Log: The state of rational debate about art
Tue, 27 May 2008
Victorian Premier John Brumby says he probably leans towards saying that Bill Henson's controversial photographs of naked youths "crossed the line" [from art to pornography].
Speaking on radio 3AW today, Mr Brumby said he had not seen the photographs.
Anyone who has seen the one (NSFW) image from the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery exhibition available to the public (or any of his prior exhibitions, apparently) can attest that there's absolutely nothing you could describe as "sexualisation".
I can think of plenty of art that many viewers would find confronting. This art clearly is. Quite inappropriate for a workplace.
Art is safe for work, surely.