Art Career Experts » art awards http://www.art-career-experts.com/wordpress Artists helping Artists to Succeed Sat, 13 Jun 2015 00:12:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Controversial Art http://www.art-career-experts.com/wordpress/2011/04/controversial-art/ http://www.art-career-experts.com/wordpress/2011/04/controversial-art/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:20:25 +0000 ace http://www.art-career-experts.com/wordpress/?p=353 This is an interesting article on controversial awards.
What would your opinion be on something like this in the US?

The first paragraph……

Controversial art

A giant penis spray-painted on a bridge has won an art prize.

By Sergey Chernov

The St. Petersburg Times

Published: April 13, 2011 (Issue # 1651)

The controversial “Dick Taken Prisoner by the FSB” — a 65-meter penis painted on Liteiny bridge to face the FSB (former KGB) headquarters in St. Petersburg when the bridge was raised — won the Culture Ministry-backed Innovation prize at a glitzy ceremony in Moscow on Thursday…….
http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=33851

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