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The review, which would consult members of the arts sector and the general community, was confirmed by a government spokesman yesterday, as politicians led by Kevin Rudd heaped condemnation on this month's Art Monthly Australia magazine. The work is ...
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FlagTHE latest furore over artwork depicting naked children has pitted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd against one of Australia's leading art critics. Mr Rudd yesterday slammed an art magazine's decision to publish the photograph of a six-year-old girl on its ...
Bravehearts says the decision by Art Monthly Australia to put a naked six-year-old girl on its cover is evidence the arts community clearly can't be relied on to self-regulate. The organisation's executive director Hetty Johnson says new legislation ...
Google THE NSW government will refer a magazine featuring a naked child on the cover to the Australian Classification board. Art Monthly Australia magazine sparked fresh controversy over naked images of children by publishing an image of a six-year-...
Mr Rudd on Sunday said work such as that shown in this month's edition of Art Monthly Australia did the opposite of restoring dignity to the debate over depictions of children in art. The taxpayer-funded magazine used a picture of a naked six-year-...
Art Monthly Australia says it put the six-year-old naked girl on its cover to protest against the censorship of nude children in art...The New South Wales Minister for Community Services wants the magazine referred to the Australian Classification ...
Angered by the "hysteria" over Henson's pictures of a 13-year-old girl, the magazine also has a number of highly sexualised images inside, according to The Sunday Telegraph newspaper. Art Monthly editor Maurice O'Riordan says he hopes the July ...
ET An Australian art magazine has reignited the debate over the use of children in art by publishing a photo of a naked young girl on the front cover of its July issue...The background is a painted seaside with cliffs. 'We need to be clever enough ...
In May a Sydney exhibition by photographer Bill Henson was shut down because it featured photos of a naked 13-year-old girl. The editor of Art Monthly Australia Maurice O'Riordan says he hopes to validate nudity and childhood as subjects for art. ...
The July edition of Art Monthly Australia also includes several provocative photos of children posing naked in adult jewellery as well as naked teenage girls. In the editorial, Maurice O'Riordan said he chose the 2003 picture of the young girl in ...
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