Russian Authorities Confiscate Racy Putin Portrait
Russia, in its quest to win friends and influence people by banning stuff, has a new target: the art world. Russian cops recently confiscated artwork from a St. Petersburg gallery.
The subject of one of the paintings makes the motive rather clear: It depicted Putin, dressed in a negligee, combing the hair of a scantily clad Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev. Two other paintings were also confiscated without explanation. And while it’s not clear what the paintings were of, word has it they, too, were mocking conservative MPs who were in support of the country's recent anti-gay legislation.
We leave it to the reader to determine whether this constitutes artistic censorship, or if the world’s been done a favor by being spared the vision of Medvedev in what appears to be Victoria’s Secret’s finest push-up demi-cup.
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Original article from TakePart
