{"id":5168,"date":"2015-05-27T07:48:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T11:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2015-05-27T07:48:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T11:48:49","slug":"works-of-art-may-be-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/works-of-art-may-be-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Works of art may be offensive”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read this laugh-out-loud piece in the NY Times. The blog post by Jeffrey Kindley is directed toward the college-age population of delicate hothouse plants who require trigger warnings on art and other cultural artifacts.  Columbia university students who found Ovid’s Metamorphosis<\/a> ‘offensive and triggering’ provide a recent example.<\/p>\n

Surrounded by Disturbing Art<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div>

I was triggered at the Frick.
\nThose alarming Veroneses
\nmay appeal to certain crazies;
\nI felt terrified and sick.
\nI was triggered at the Met.
\n“Los Caprichos” are disgusting
\nwith their cheating and their lusting,
\nand those Schieles at the Neue
\nare at least as bad as Goya.
\nI was triggered at the Guggenheim,
\nthe Whitney and the New.
\nI left MoMA in a coma
\nand I think that I might sue.
\nWe need signs that give a sense of
\nwhat you’ll find in a museum:
\n“Works of art may be offensive.
\nAre you sure you want to see ’em?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read this laugh-out-loud piece in the NY Times. The blog post by Jeffrey Kindley is directed toward the college-age population of delicate hothouse plants who require trigger warnings on art and other cultural artifacts.  Columbia university students who found Ovid’s Metamorphosis ‘offensive and triggering’ provide a recent example. Surrounded by Disturbing Art Read moreCleveland Museum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[251,17,253,254],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-art-museum","category-culture","category-politics","tag-ny-times"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4303,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/visiting-the-cleveland-museum-of-art-101714\/","url_meta":{"origin":5168,"position":0},"title":"Visiting the Cleveland Museum of Art 10\/17\/14","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"October 17, 2014","format":"status","excerpt":"The NY Times recently ran a piece about visiting art\u00a0museums. 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