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SOME CHERISHED MYTHS EXPLODED AND SOME INCONVENIENT QUESTIONS RAISED

WITH THE OLYMPIC GAMES RETURNING HOME TO ATHENS THIS YEAR, GREECE IS ONCE MORE DEMANDING THE RETURN OF THE PARTHENON MARBLES

MORE THAN ANY OTHER FORM OF CREATIVE EXPRESSION, THE CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS HAVE A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH SCANDAL AND, THEREFORE, INEVITABLY, WITH ATTEMPTS AT SUPPRESSION

I never think of myself as someone who is going to be - or who is likely to be - censored. Recent experiences have tended to prove me wrong. The sting in these experiences has not been the act of censorship itself, but the identity of the censors. Essentially, they are people who ought to have been on my side of the fence

Good taste at this time in a technological democracy ends up to be nothing more than taste prejudice. If all that art does is create good or bad taste, then it has failed completely… Camera Art must be completely devoid of logic so that the viewer applies his own logic and the work. in fact, makes itself before the viewer's eyes.

The Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival In Estonia had some suprises in store, including the breaking of some long held taboos

Unlike the word, graphic art in the Arab world retains its power to resist the worst of fundamentalism

Images of childhood in western art reflect society's changing attitudes to children. While the erotic force of past masters is beyond reproach or banishment, the intrusion of the camera provokes outrage and censoriousness