Sunday, August 21, 2016

8-Day Blog Post: Trump Statue: NYC

Most recently on CNN, life-sized naked statues of Donald Trump have been flooding New York parks, San Fransisco streets, and borders of Mexico. It is said in "NYC Parks Dept. issues cheeky response to naked Trump statue," by Theodore Schleifer, that anti-Trump groups have been assembling the illegal statues in protest all over the country. Words like, "Rape Trump" have been scrawled across the naked statuettes, raising the question of how far is too far? Trump hasn't made a statement yet, but it makes me wonder if art, especially political satire, should be regulated by the government or if there should be a subset of rules regarding the free speech amendment in the art world.

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