Two great cartoons from Bill Leak in The Australian over the past two days on the Bill Henson saga:
Monday 26 May
Saturday 24 May
Bill Leak on Bill Henson
- Constantine Frantzeskos
- 26th May 2008
- Culture
- 1 Comment
Posts in: May, 2008
Art under attack by Rudd the philistine
- Constantine Frantzeskos
- 23rd May 2008
- Culture
- 5 Comments
Superstar Australian artist Bill Henson has been the victim of a vicious and ignorant political / media witch-hunt that has led to the cancellation of his latest show in Sydney, and a rebuke from Kevin Rudd, who called his art “revolting”. This is the same Bill Henson who
Sex change for a 12 year old “adult”
- Constantine Frantzeskos
- 26th May 2008
- Culture
- 4 Comments
In the light of the Bill Henson saga, where the major argument against his work is that his 12 or 13 year old models and their parents don’t have the wherewithal to approve of their own images in an artistic context, we hear of the Federal Court’s approval of