When is a sign art? When is art a sign? Not much of a question until censorship is involved. This is the issue at Las Vegas’ Erotic Heritage Museum newest outdoor mural.
The exposed nipples on portraits of women in the Ho-Down Mural Project violated a county sign code that bans (among other things) the showing of the areola of female breasts, the county says.
Museum curator Laura Henkel covered the nipples with pasties, but argues that the murals are urban art, not signs.
Read more here.
The issue of censorship is always a hot topic. But, what interests me is the fact there is both an "Erotic Heritage Museum" and a "Ho-Down Mural Project". Only in Vegas, some might say. For more on both, go here and here.
I'm not surprised to find in Vegas images of exposed nipples, be they on signs or what's called art (maybe quote marks are needed).
My objection is that the county thinks it's ok to denigrate women with the word "Ho".
Posted by: Maureen E. Doallas | January 04, 2010 at 08:27 PM