Sentences with phrase «cultural obscenity»

The hectic state of the international art market, and the huge sums paid - such as the recent record price for Picasso's Boy with a Pipe - was lambasted last night as «a cultural obscenity» by the critic Robert Hughes.

«I don't think there is any doubt that the present commercialisation of the art world, at its top end, is a cultural obscenity.

Damien Hirst's masterpiece generated enormous press attention when it was first exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery, and many notable art critics including Brian Sewell and Robert Hughes refused to accept that it was art at all — Hughes went so far as to call it a «cultural obscenity».

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Titled after the local slang for the city's fabled 42nd Street, The Deuce explores the rough - and - tumble world of the sex trade from the moment when both a liberalizing cultural revolution in American sexuality and new legal definitions of obscenity created a billion - dollar industry that is now an elemental component of the American cultural landscape.

The retrospective of more than 150 works, many of them depicting gay subcultures, proved too hot to handle and a number of museums found themselves on the frontline of controversy — the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC canceled their presentation of the show and the director of the Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center was tried for obscenity and acquitted — and some politicians used the ICA show as an example of how federal grants were misused by the cultural community.