Andy Rooney on Public Art
Morley Safer tears the art world a new one...
Jerry Saltz Reaches Across the Aisle
Rachofsky House
Felix González -Torres
50 lbs of green candy (1991)
Allora Calzadilla vs. Laura Favaretto
That Sinking Feeling
Sandro Botticelli, Calumny (1494)
Calumny is an accusation against society (moral judgment of Florentine government) in the guise of a general allegory.
Midas (on his throne), receiving the counsels of Ignorance and Suspicion. A hooded Envy, clasping the hand of Calumny, holds the scepter of authority. Deception and Fraud keep her company as she drags the unidentified victim by the hair. Penitence turns hopefully towards stark-naked Truth.
Liberty Guiding the People (Popular name: Liberty on the Barricades)
Nakedness=Truth
"Visual paradox of the exposed body in which nakedness symbolises Truth but nudity suggests sexuality ... (p.72)
"...an alliange of the erotic and political"