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Yes, well one notable

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 05:16:18 +0000

In reply to There's no such thing as good

Yes, well one notable historic story about "bad" publicity: Chris Offli's paintings with elephant dung are worth a fortune these days due to oligarchs and Republican billionaires bidding them up. Would have never happened without Rudy Guilani and Bill Donohue and assorted conservative talking heads helping label the once young unknown artist as trying to shock when he was actually doing nothing but being reverential.

P.S. African contemporary art from Africa happens to be really hot right now among the international monied class. Because it often uses stuff like machine gun parts and shell casings and like blood and bottle caps...go figure

There's no such thing as good

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 03:37:53 +0000

In reply to All part of the process of

There's no such thing as good publicity. ~H.R. Clinton

All part of the process of

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 02:44:34 +0000

In reply to Deplorables Threaten Shakespeare Across the Nation

All part of the process of creating controversial art. If you can't take the heat, make something pretty instead.

Or do it extremely well, including fanning a lot of flames, and win in the end:

Here’s what the dazzling 1989 Robert Mapplethorpe protest at the Corcoran looked like

(From WaPo. April, 2016)

Want people to remember your rally? Want your protest to pack a punch? Then hire some artists.

Washington has been the site of many bigger protests. But not many were as stunning and memorable — yet relatively simple — as the one that a group of artists mounted at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1989 to protest the museum’s decision to pull the plug on an NEA-funded show whose sexually-charged imagery had drawn the ire of conservative lawmakers [.....]

Edit to add: There's no such thing as bad publicity ~ P.T. Barnum.

True. You have Alex Jones

rmrd0000 — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 01:23:40 +0000

In reply to The Core GOP Base has very

True. You have Alex Jones fans who believe that he proved his points during the Megan Kelly interview.

The Core GOP Base has very

NCD — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 22:10:02 +0000

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The Core GOP Base has very short memories, and are uneducated infinitely reprogrammable idiots exploited and controlled by the multi-billion dollar right wing media empire, in which corporations and individual purveyors make millions and billions keeping them ignorant and angry. For those reasons they comprise a bigger threat to America than Russia or China.

Obama was depicted as Julius

rmrd0000 — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:05:03 +0000

In reply to Deplorables Threaten Shakespeare Across the Nation

Obama was depicted as Julius Caesar on stage in 2012. Delta sponsored the theatre.

http://www.thewrap.com/real-time-fact-check-liberals-react-obama-themed-...

Obama's head exploded in the 2015 movie "Kingsmen"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2951306/Death-Barack-New-action-...