Newsday.com: "These are tough times for iconoclasts. Criticizing religion, a favorite artistic gambit of the past 250 years, has become potentially lethal. If creative types are unwilling to pay the price, argument will be muffled at the point of a gun."
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This article was thoroughly intriguing, art for so long is one of the few forms of expression that can be truly controversial while protecting its creator because it is “art”. However in modern society it is not government that an artist must fear but rather radical fundamentalist who disagree with their work and in an age of instant media, instant information it is not only the fundamentalists in the immediate area one must fear but those throughout the world. This then provokes the question, do we stop making art to protect ourselves, or continue to create things which stir the public conscious but that may risk our own safety. Artist through out the world are making the choice to be radical, a choice that I feel needs to be applauded or soon enough theater will all be Cats and art landscapes.
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