Fox affiliate censors breasts of $179m Picasso painting on air

[Liberal_in_LA]

Fox affiliate censors breasts of $179m Picasso painting on air
A local Fox news station has censored the breasts on a cubist painting by Pablo Picasso, prompting bemusement and ridicule from art critics and audiences.

Reporting on the record-setting, $179m auction of Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O), New York’s Fox 5, blurred the breasts of three women in the painting, despite the stylized and distinctly unrealistic portrayal of those women mostly through blocky shapes.

The network did not censor a pair of buttocks.

The New York channel falls under the Fox umbrella network, owned by the media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Observers, sometimes conflating the affiliate with the Fox News cable channel, derided the censorship of art.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/14/fox-news-picasso-painting-censorship

[samsingh]

1. fox is now like the taliban

[marble falls]

2. Oh jees..........

[RKP5637]

3. Fox is such a joke. Too bad some take Fox seriously and don't get what Fox is. n/t

[onehandle]

4. Why aren't those female faces veiled!!?

That Fox affiliate is attacking family values with this suggestive display!

And are those buttocks!

[valerief]

5. When are they going to change their name to The Clown Network? nt

[Recursion]

6. Was it Ashcroft who covered the breasts on the statue of Justice?

You know, the statue whose bare breast symbolizes the fact that Justice need not be ashamed because she is on the side of Right?

Yeah.

Art history should probably taught more.

[leftofcool]

7. Somewhere, Picasso is laughing his ass off!