Portrait Draws Calls For Congressional Investigation

[lilyannerose]

I certainly haven't seen this exhibit, however, my point would be that I don't think it's up to Congress to decide what is art nor to "investigate" the why of a display of art in a National Museum. A National Museum by definition should be mandated to represent all sectors of the peoples of a country with their creative product displaying their POV regarding culture.

Hide/Seek' Portrait Draws Calls For Congressional Investigation

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/01...90521.html

A GOP lawmaker from Georgia is breaking ground on the party's ambitious new agenda by calling for a congressional investigation into a recently removed artwork in the National Portrait Gallery that featured a controversial video showing a figurine of Jesus Christ covered in ants.

Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) spoke on Fox News Wednesday morning and explained his outrage over the critically acclaimed installation.

"This is a museum that gets $5.8 million in taxpayer dollars and in the middle of a high deficit, 15 million unemployed Americans, they decide to have money to spend like this. This is a museum that, by the way, has next to it a display of the American presidents, on the other side, Elvis, and then you go through this -- which is really perverted, sick stuff -- ashes of an AIDS victim, in a self-portrait, eating himself. Male nudity, Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her own breast - lots of really kinky and really questionable kind of art."