No Friend of the Nude: A Blushing Facebook Wages a ... - Boek 861
No Friend of the Nude: A Blushing Facebook Wages a ... - Boek 861
No Friend of the Nude: A Blushing Facebook Wages a ... - Boek 861
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Art found itself so exasperated by <strong>Facebook</strong>'s insistent removal <strong>of</strong> relatively chaste nudes on its<br />
page that it took to its blog to ask readers, "How is FACEBOOK controlling ART?" The school<br />
posted a mini-catalogue <strong>of</strong> works that had been flagged as violating <strong>the</strong> site's terms <strong>of</strong> use,<br />
including pieces by Richard T. Scott, John Wellington, Judy Fox, and Steven Assael.<br />
Apparently, it was <strong>the</strong> removal <strong>of</strong> Assael's ink-on-paper work "Simone" that was <strong>the</strong> last straw<br />
for <strong>the</strong> Academy.<br />
The story made waves. The New York Times covered <strong>the</strong> brouhaha, eliciting an apologetic<br />
statement from a <strong>Facebook</strong> spokesman: "We count many amateur — and some pr<strong>of</strong>essional —<br />
artists among our employees, and we're thrilled that so many artists share <strong>the</strong>ir work on<br />
<strong>Facebook</strong>. In this case, we congratulate <strong>the</strong> artist on his lifelike portrayal that, frankly, fooled our<br />
reviewers. Each member <strong>of</strong> our investigations team reviews thousands <strong>of</strong> pieces <strong>of</strong> reported<br />
content every day and, <strong>of</strong> course, we occasionally make a mistake. We're sorry for <strong>the</strong><br />
confusion here and we encourage <strong>the</strong> artist to repost his work."<br />
Such insistence seems definitely not to provide recourse in <strong>the</strong> case <strong>of</strong> Courbet's particularly inyour-face<br />
image <strong>of</strong> artistic nudity, however. Stay tuned.<br />
<strong>No</strong> <strong>Friend</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Nude</strong>: A <strong>Blushing</strong> <strong>Facebook</strong> <strong>Wages</strong> a<br />
Campaign Against Courbet and Au Naturale Art<br />
<strong>Facebook</strong> took issue with a Danish artist's posting <strong>of</strong> Courbet's "The Origin <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> World" to his