Comment: Why the art world is blind to sex crime If you are an artist and you abuse a child, never fear: the art world has your back, writes Melinda Tankard Reist. Artists who commit sexual violations are too often considered above the law and deserving of special treatment. Their brilliance is given deferential treatment: […]
My past commentary on Olympia Nelson’s image, Art Monthly and Bill Henson I appeared briefly on Australian story last night in a piece about Olympia Nelson, inspired by her significant piece on the rise of the selfie, ‘Dark undercurrents of teenage girls selfies’, published in The Sydney Morning Herald, July 11, 2003, and reprinted here. […]
Photos found in paedophile collections I haven’t seen the latest photographs by artist Bill Henson to go on show at Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne. But I have seen these. So I know what Henson is capable of and how he likes to depicts and shoot young girls. The girl (image to the right) who featured naked […]
