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The Art Curious podcast is sponsored by Anchorlight. For more information about all of Anchorlight's artistic and creative endeavors,

please visit Anchorlightrolly.com. Just a quick note that today's episode contains adult content,

so please take care when listening. In conjuring up the ideas for episodes for this season and last, I have, almost entirely,

focused on artworks that were controversial in their own time, works that were shocking when

they were first exhibited. Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, a manufactured urinal deemed art,

Edward Mene's Olympia, an art historical staple updated scandalously for the bourgeoisie

of the 19th century, Artemisia Gentilesky's violent and bloody revenge fantasy, Judith

beheading Holofernes. But with this episode, I wanted to break with tradition, at least a little

bit, by talking about one single work of art that was deemed generally fine and

basically overlooked from any scandalous standpoint at its birth and continued to be accepted

without debate for decades. But now, right now, in our contemporary moment, there has been

an intense debate about this work of art, with many calling for its removal.

Contemporary art always seems like it is controversial and really good at getting tongues wagging.

But art that's been hanging on the walls of a famed museum for years, that can do a pretty good job of being problematic too.

Some people think that visual art is dry, boring, lifeless.

But the stories behind those paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographs are

we're we're crazier or more fun than you can imagine.

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