COWENGATE: brian cowen, naked. (1 Viewer)

[ann post]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0323/cowennude.html

Guerilla artist hangs nude Cowen paintings



Who snuck nude paintings of Taoiseach Brian Cowen into two of Dublin's most prestigious museums?

That is the mystery surrounding what could be an act of artistic expression or civil disobedience.

An anonymous donor hung this painting (right) in the gallery of the Royal Hibernian Academy aside the regular collection. When a visitor asked staff about the new nude, it was removed.

'We certainly can't condone work coming in this way,' said Rebecca Gale of the gallery, barely containing her smile.
She added that their open submission show, which opens in May, is the best route to get work onto the gallery walls.
'We'll be keeping an eye out for work coming in this way from now on,' Ms Gale said of the guerilla tactic.
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Another painting of An Taoiseach, this time naked on a toilet, was found at the National Gallery. It hung for 20 minutes before it was spotted, removed and handed over to gardaí.
One woman who saw the nude at the Royal Hibernian Gallery offered to buy it.
'It's reasonably well painted. It's not the worst thing I've ever seen,' conceded James O'Halloran of Adam's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers.
But the Royal Hibernian cannot sell it because it does not own it.
However, if the painter gets in touch with the gallery, they may just have a buyer - and a lot of questions from the gardaí.

 

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Naked pictures of the Taoiseach

It could be described as oil on canvas featuring taoiseach, but the appearance of nude paintings of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen in two Dublin galleries has seen the police called in.

A painting of Mr Cowen holding his underpants appeared in the Royal Hibernian Academy and one of him pictured on the toilet ended up in the National Gallery.

Whether it was political subversion or artistic expression if the painter behind them comes to light they could find themselves answering questions from Irish police.

The National Gallery said they had called in the police and were reluctant to comment further on the matter, other than to say the painting had been up for no more than 20 minutes before it was removed.

"It was not authorised to be on display and garda are investigating," the gallery said.

The academy is also deciding whether or not to call in the police to investigate its mysterious appearance, but a spokeswoman did not want to go further.

"We don't want to make more of it than it is," she said.

Offer

The painting of Mr Cowen is still on the premises, but in one of the offices instead of on public view.

One woman who saw the painting reportedly offered to buy it.

Irish police are in possession of the other work, and have said that an investigation into the matter is under way.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7960997.stm

 

[ann post]

Re: Naked pictures of the Taoiseach

http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=71479

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

Re: Naked pictures of the Taoiseach

http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=71479

awww jeepers, someone repeated your thread awwww

 

[ann post]

Re: Naked pictures of the Taoiseach

glad you spotted that andy, feel better now.

 

[magicbastarder]

Re: Naked pictures of the Taoiseach

apparently today FM managed to contact the naked cowen artist; the gardai then turned up at the studio demanding access to the emil so the artist can be prosecuted for incitement to hatred. today fm refused, the gardai are off to get a warrant.

 

[plug]

Re: Naked pictures of the Taoiseach

nice to see the gardai haven't lost their sense of humour in these difficult times.

 

[zero_hero]

Re: Naked pictures of the Taoiseach

did Brian Cowen even say anything about this himself? Maybe he has a sense of humour

 

[plug]

Re: Naked pictures of the Taoiseach

this should answer your question:

RTE has issued a public apology to Taoiseach Brian Cowen for running a story about fake nude portraits of him.

The station received an official complaint from Mr Cowen's office about the report, which was broadcast on the RTE '9 o'clock news' last Monday.

Last night, it broadcast an apology for its story about the illegal hanging of hoax nude portraits of Mr Cowen in the National Gallery and the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.

"RTE News would like to apologise for any personal offence caused to Mr Cowen or his family for any disrespect shown to the office of the Taoiseach," it said.

A spokesman for Mr Cowen confirmed that he had made a complaint about the story, which he said "went beyond the news values of RTE".

The report described how gardai were investigating who was responsible for leaving the nude paintings of Mr Cowen in the two galleries.

Last night, Fianna Fail Dublin-North TD Michael Kennedy called on RTE director general Cathal Goan to "consider his position".

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/rte-apology-to-cowen-for-nude-portrait-story-1684876.html

 

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[nooleen]

it is the responsibility of newsmedia comrades to broadcast only that for make benefit glorious party leader!

 

[Froog]

yes! i've finally been made someone's signature, nice one gaz!

 

[GO]

Heh heh.

 

[FiFi_LaRue]

Funny how RTE are so quick to delete evidence of this from their site, yet leave the piece where Pat Kenny asks the kid if he'd black up if he went to the States.

 

[CitySickness]

Re: Naked pictures of the Taoiseach

RTE has issued a public apology to Taoiseach Brian Cowen for running a story about fake nude portraits of him.

The station received an official complaint from Mr Cowen's office about the report, which was broadcast on the RTE '9 o'clock news' last Monday.

Last night, it broadcast an apology for its story about the illegal hanging of hoax nude portraits of Mr Cowen in the National Gallery and the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.

"RTE News would like to apologise for any personal offence caused to Mr Cowen or his family for any disrespect shown to the office of the Taoiseach," it said.

A spokesman for Mr Cowen confirmed that he had made a complaint about the story, which he said "went beyond the news values of RTE".

The report described how gardai were investigating who was responsible for leaving the nude paintings of Mr Cowen in the two galleries.

Last night, Fianna Fail Dublin-North TD Michael Kennedy called on RTE director general Cathal Goan to "consider his position".

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...y-1684876.html

WTF?

 

[ann post]

the radio just said that some dublin school teacher painted it

 

[nooleen]

 

[cephalopod]

Whiff of 1980s East Berlin off all this

 

[Cormcolash]

If Brian Cowen takes such personal offence to this, imagine how he's going to feel when I call him a fucking fat moronic ugly prick on Thumped!

 

[nooleen]

irishelection.com are already selling protest tshirts:

http://287857.spreadshirt.net/en/IE/Shop/Article/Index/article/Censor-This-9038808



The Taoiseach has no clothes and RTE has no balls: the Brian Cowen Nude Caricature