From the comments made so far by pollies on both sides it looks as though Art Monthly could lose their funding. Genius.
Well Art Monthly then can turn into a blog like this one, so it might be a good thing to happen.
I think a Disney movie is completely out of the question for Cate. Is her career over?
Papapetrou's work was always in the background of the Henson affair. I kept wondering when some over zealous anti-child porn campaigner would latch on to her pictures but I imagined she was keeping her head down. Now she's stuck it over parapet herself!
Excerpt from The Age, July 7
"A little child cannot answer for themselves about whether they wish to be depicted in this way," Mr Rudd said. "Frankly, I can't stand this stuff."
...But The Age art critic Robert Nelson, Papapetrou's husband and father of Olympia, now 11, said the family had no regrets and the photograph was a great work of art.
"It's interesting that if the Prime Minister comments on, say the greenhouse effect, he gets expert advice first," Monah University Associate Professor Nelson said. "I would like to know which art expert advised him on this."
It looks like legislation and a travel ban ( London) for Henson. We don't need to contemplate Polixeni Papapetrou at the moment. She hasn't helped Henson, that's for sure. I don't think he is going to be too pleased.
Watch out for the wowsers. Anyone who can find Papapetrou's paintings of her daughter *sexualised* has problems.
All those middle Australian's with Ann Geddes calendars on their walls had better quake in their boots....
You'll probably find that they are Robert Nelson's paintings in the background of those photos. Sounds like the Age beating it's own drum.
Why is George bringing up Cate Blanchett. And whats this about a travel ban for Henson. Am i missing something?
Another interesting article to the SMH -
http://artsjournalist.blogspot.c...nto-
hettys.html
Art Monthly is a pretty boring magazine usually. I hate their fake letters page - such smug humour. This will be a dose of reality for them.
It seems, these days the only way to make Australian art to be known, is to show the naked under aged girls. I guess the editor of Art Monthly will have a couple of drinks over his "heroic" action, mate, this just shows your poor interpretation of the contemporary art practice. You Don't need to sell your daughter's body to make yourself famous. This is an embarrassment for Australian art.
Shameless promotion by Nelson and Papapetrou.
I agree that this won't help Henson, or the issue (both), at all. A crass attempt at publicity, I'm sure that's that not a recent work but that's neither here nor there ...*sniff sniff* is that the reek of coat tail riding?
Someone should alert the fashion police and 'fine' Art Critic Robert Nelson for wearing that hideous shirt and bow tie. He looked like he was covered in vomit.
I mean, does he think he's an architect or something?
I doubt it was simply an attempt at publicity. Probally angry about Henson's ordeal andsincerely felt they are making a statement about censorship.
I get irritated when I have to defend work I can't stand because of the censorship issues. Those Papapetrou pix are so cheeeeesy... Young Olympia may well be embarrassed when she's older...
Well, the dad is just loving this. And so by the look of her is the little lady.
It's a pity because this obvious publicity stunt blurs the censorship debate. Today everyone has to be a celebrity and the poor kid is spouting stuff to the TV cameras that she obviously has no idea about.
Fairminded people who would otherwise abhor heavy handed censorship watch this kid mouthing a lot of adult cliches and think to themselves, hmm, may be Kevin07 and Hetti Perkins are right after all.
It's sad for Bill Henson, sad for artists and saddest of all for the silly little kid caught up in dreams of TV fame.
Especially when she gets to school tomorrow.
"Children should be seen and not heard"
... or has someone cracked this one already?
i hardly think that the polexini photo's in art monthly were a publicity stunt by the artist, I believe there is an editor of the magazine who obviously chose her work to further frame the debate - hey i think this is a good thing ....
calm down with the hysteria!
nor is the daughter mouthing adult words that mean nothing to her - with both her parents part of the art world she would be a much more informed kid about art than most right? would you rather she be repeating the ignoramous fearful lather had she parents such as kevin 'its repulsive' rudd?
is there a correct position to take - if an artist responds must their contribution label them media hungry desperados? get a grip - if this kind of closing down of debate continues on the road it is already what next?
i think robert nelson added the most sane comment of all that 'we need to restore dignity to the child nude'
Hey John Brooke, I think you mean Hetty Johnston. Hetti Perkins, Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at AGNSW doesn't give a toss about this storm in a teacup, you tool.
hetty perkins?? hahaha
on the noggin dazed!
No, John Brooke is correct, Hettie Perkins is right.
i'm all for restoring dignity to the child nude and the nude child and the nudey rudey and the cruddy ruddy.
On the other hand there's no possible excuse for Robert nelson's shirt and bowtie - totally hideous!
"Why is George bringing up Cate Blanchett. And whats this about a travel ban for Henson. Am i missing something?"
Other countries have different laws, Oz does not the rules make.
( Henson did in a way make Brit child porn laws, he was at the top of a short list of prolific issues)
Henson is way too scary for London, Cate is stuck with a Peoria thing, that money-element between Burbank and Kansas.
So dere.
" I get irritated when I have to defend work I can't stand because of the censorship issues. Those Papapetrou pix are so cheeeeesy... Young Olympia may well be embarrassed when she's older..."
Less make-up and more clothes, might be a career move and avoid being in mags with Japanese schoolgirl porn. No point having a pedo fan-club dogging a career.
Lose the parents
Yeah, you are right, a Sorry to Hetti Perkins.
Hetti Johnson I meant. Phew!
Cheers.
Please please please, next time someone decides to weigh into such a sensitive debate in such a shamelessly public way find a spokesperson slightly more presentable than Robert Nelson. He is an embarrassment to the entire contemporary art world.
ArtMonthly, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Bill Henson must surely be ashamed that his work is in any way related to that trashy, 5 year old cover image on your magazine.
I think Bill and Robert and O'Riordan, need to go live in Japan, that's where it is really legal.
The BBC is the moderate voice of pro-pedophilia and they think that Oz, is turning into a loweer class pedophile slum.
'The debate has provoked a strong debate in the Australian media. In an editorial entitled "Art stunt betrays our children", the Australian daily newspaper The Daily Telegraph said it saw the need to protect artistic expression but said some of the images of children published in Art Monthly Australia were "highly sexualised".'
Reading between the lines that is.
The other thing, can't somebody do something, about Nelson's sense of dress?
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