sex, art, and politics

claytoncubitt:

“Flesh For Fantasy (Girl #5)”, color pigment print, 32.5 x 44.5, 2008

That’s the piece I’m showing in the group show Talk Dirty To Me, opening tomorrow night. Ken at This Heart’s On Fire wrote it up yesterday, including the image, and has since come under fire from his advertising affiliates at Glam Media:

“I’m sorry about the below confusion & I appreciate that Talk Dirty is a very cool exhibition well worthy of coverage.

However, as I am sure you will appreciate; TK Maxx (and the majority of advertisers that we work with) position themselves as a family brand & are concerned about the impact that this could have on their reputation. (Silly I know, but unfortunately these guys just don’t get art I’m afraid…)

So we have two options: Either we switch the image that accompanies the article for a less NSFW pic – or we call it quits.”

Being the stubborn patriotic American that he is, Ken not only didn’t take my offending image down, he posted the whole exchange, along with a couple more copies sandwiching Kiera Knightly for good measure.

My question is: if families come from sex and vaginas, why are sex and vaginas considered offensive to families?

Maybe we should ask Glam Media: info@GlamMedia.com

I realized I’d edited out a sex, art, and politics trifecta.