Predictably, people with blogs have weighed in on the Bill Henson story. ‘Twas the #2 topic on local blogs this week. A long way behind posts about the State of Origin but still a active response.
There is a lot of discussion taking differing views so happy blog reading trying to get through it all…The Bill Henson controversy, Behind the News, Art or Exploitation?, This is not art?, OUTRAGE: Bill Henson’s Exhibition. Child porn?, Art and censorship – not a good mix, About bloody time, I can’t hardly believe it, Bill Henson exhibition under investigation, Bill Henson Shut Down, Art Or Pornography?, Bill Henson controversy, Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery: Bill Henson - Police close exhibition, Bill Henson, our local rag, In days of future past, Bill Henson show closed until further notice, More Art Censorship, Bill Henson photography exhibit - a tangent, P.S., When nudity equals sex and art equals pornography, In the name of Art, Another uproar in the art world, But is it art?, Censorship, My 2c on the Bill Henson drama, Art or Porn?, knee-jerk?, Art or crime?, Paedophilia or Art?, Not safe for work/home/life itself!, In defence of Bill Henson , The obscenity of adolescence, continued, the art world, Kevin Rudd as art critic, What’s Art? What’s Porn? What The F–k?, OUTRAGE: Bill Henson’s Exhibition. Child porn?, Hetty Johnson, serves up stormy tea, The Bill Henson Debacle, Budding Maidens and Art, Art? Pig’s bum it is!, Art is what you can get away with, Banished art, Is Keven Rudd a stupid jerk?, Censoring our disturbing feelings, Every Philistine critic gets to be an instant artist for a day!, Child abuse campaigners lose the plot, Art obscenity charges, Censorship in Australia, the row, an interesting week, Projection onto Adolescent Forms, But is it art? — 2, our man in berlin, bill henson is innocent, In defence of Bill Henson, Bill Henson, Eli Langer, Bill Henson, We live in a sick world…, Art and the sexualising of children, The Bill Henson ‘kiddy porn’ fiasco, Bill Henson, art and child porn.
(Note: We only track Australian blogs so there may be more blog reactions internationally but they don’t show up on our radar.)