Offensive Potential

Corporate Sensitivity in Action

Bullshit from one of the local museums. At last someone has responded aesthetically.

The Ayatollah Deitch

Blu's enormous mural was painted on the north side of the Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo and pictured rows of coffins cloaked in dollar bills. The mural was commissioned by the museum in advance of its upcoming "Art in the Streets" show next April. But Deitch said Monday that the mural was insensitive to the neighborhood, as it was adjacent to both a Veterans Affairs hospital and a war memorial to Japanese soldiers. Deitch also said he had intended to meet with the artist before the mural went up, but was unable to due to travel complications on Blu's end and the fact that Deitch had to leave town to attend a Miami art fair.

It should probably be clarified (Way to go, ignorant Times typist.) that the war memorial is for American soldiers of Japanese descent who fought in WWII (Go For Broke, bitchezz!!) not soldiers of Imperial Japan.

"A giant antiwar mural right in the heart of L.A.’s political district was erased by the museum staff just after it was finished. MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch claimed it was potentially offensive to the community. Can there be a more perfect example of censorship? Does it not border on Orwellianism to call it something else?"

As indicated in the Berlusconi item below, Just Another Blog™'s editorial position is to be offended by the sensibilities of anyone enough of an asshole to have sensibilities & then whine about them. Not that any one was given the chance even to see the mural before the whining began.

In the meantime, corporate executivesMOCA Trustees are very, very concerned.

As for the reason Deitch offered for the decision, Johnson buys it: "I believe it was a very human decision, made out of respect for veterans in the community."

We've no idea which corporate entity this imaginary "David Johnson" (Better than "John Smith," but not by much.) represents, but we doubt if he & his ilk have ever lost a single dollar bill as a result of any wars. And the likelihood of any of his corporate buddies or their hideous offspring dying for oil & profits is quite low.

Where oh where is the respect for the suckers who volunteer to die for corporate profits, Afghan pipelines, (our) Iraqi oil & so on? (Not that the idiots who volunteer actually deserve any respect, it goes w/o saying, but we're always rerady to illustrate the empty meaninglessness of words like respect & honor, to note but two.)