Russian artist Andrei Molodkin will destroy works by Picasso, Rembrandt and Warhol if Julian Assange dies in prison. It’s an unoriginal idea born of art-historical ignorance
Nadia Beard on the Russian artist Andrei Molodkin’s piece “Dead Man’s Switch,” which will destroy various works of art if Julian Assange, of WikiLeaks, dies in prison.
This week, the more conservative echelons of Spanish society have been restive. For Easter Week in Seville, artist Salustiano García has produced a portrait of Jesus Christ that critics have described as “effeminate” – a word I hadn’t heard for about 25 years. García’s portrait is fairly horrid: a Calvin Klein model of a Messiah pouting against a crimson background, with a ruched cloth covering his modesty. Yet the outcry is – well, you might say “anachronistic”, were it not for the fact that th