{"id":1053,"date":"2006-05-08T09:51:13","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T17:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/towards_a_more_respectful_phallus.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:25:11","slug":"towards_a_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/towards_a_more.html","title":{"rendered":"Towards A More Respectful Phallus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn College art students <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/68130.htm\">cannot fathom why it&#8217;s offensive to exhibit provocative art in a war memorial<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Brooklyn art exhibition that included a pet rat and a sculpted penis has been shut down by city officials who judged it too raunchy for the public.<\/p>\n<p>The show, by Brooklyn College graduate students at the city-run Brooklyn War Memorial, was canned by the Parks Department after some people complained about the phallic display, which bore an obscene inscription, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman confirmed the exhibition was deemed offensive to families and said the department, which owns the space, has an agreement with the college to display &#8220;suitable&#8221; art.<\/p>\n<p>But exhibitor Marni Kotak complained, &#8220;We have spent thousands of dollars and many hours putting together site-specific installations.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/sub_your_park\/historical_signs\/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11809\">Brooklyn War Memorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn College art students cannot fathom why it&#8217;s offensive to exhibit provocative art in a war memorial: A Brooklyn art exhibition that included a pet rat and a sculpted penis has been shut down by city officials who judged it too raunchy for the public. The show, by Brooklyn College graduate students at the city-run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}