This is indecent?
This week a Pablo Picasso painting went up for auction and broke an
incredible record:
One of Pablo Picasso's later paintings in his series, "Les Femmes D'Alger" ("Women of Algiers"), was sold for $179.4 million, including the Christie's Auction House fee, at auction on Monday night.
As expected, news of the record-breaking sale was reported worldwide. But, censors at one news outlet—Fox News—must've decided the painting was simply too risqué for their audience. They blurred out the offensive $179.4 million breasts and it had art critics raging:
How sexually sick are conservatives & Fox News? They blurred parts of the Picasso painting. #SickMinds
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— @jerrysaltz
From the
Sydney Morning Herald:
His consternation was echoed across various other Twitter users, who labelled the move "bizarre" and "pathetic", with one user including the hashtag #freethenipple, referencing the recent campaign against censorship of the female form.
In the screen grab of the report on Fox5NY, which covers New York City, the nipples of three female figures are blurred out, despite its significance as a major artwork.
Somewhere, great artists of yesteryear are turning in their graves.