nationalreview.com
interesting peace about swedish art, is not it?
The installation Snow White and the Madness of Truth, located in the courtyard of Stockholm's Museum of National Antiquities, featured a basin filled with red water, designed to look like blood. A sailboat with the name Snow White floated on the water, and placed like a sail was a photograph of a smiling Hanadi Jaradat, the 29-year-old Palestinian lawyer who blew herself up in the Haifa suicide bombing in October which killed 21 Israelis."
Accompanying the display was a text that reads in part: "As white as snow, as red as blood, and her hair was as black as ebony. Seemingly innocent with universal non-violent character, less suspicious of intentions and the red looked beautiful upon the white, the murderer will yet pay the price and we will not be the only ones crying." Seeing this, Zvi Mazel's diplomatic temperament failed him, and he tried to tear the exhibit apart. He ripped a spotlight from its mooring, and tossed it into the pool, short-circuiting the display. And of course, the "artists" immediately began wailing about repression of free speech, and the freedom of art for its own sake. This is art as obscenity, and the choice to display it at the outset of the genocide conference has nothing to do with freedom of expression |
