Too rude to show?

"Facebook has repeatedly disabled users’ accounts for posting images of Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World, 1866. The erotic work of art, in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, falls foul of the site’s prohibition of offensive materials. Facebook’s censorship has led to online campaigns encouraging users to change their profile pictures to show the work. This is, according to the French writer Luc Wouters, 'so that Mark Zuckerberg [the company’s chief executive] comes across this masterpiece and can admire its unrelenting beauty as much as I do'."  [Read Full Article]

Published by:  The Art Newspaper
On:  09/15/11
Website:  http://www.theartnewspaper.com

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