Austria Sex Billboard Watch: Images Depicting Queen Elizabeth, President Bush and President Chirac YANKED
NOTE: Sexually explicit images will be displayed in this POST.
The ASSociated Press has Billboard shows world leaders in menage a trois
Austrian chancellor yanks ‘art project’ showing British queen, Bush, Chirac
Her Majesty would not have been amused.
Neither would President Bush or his French counterpart, Jacques Chirac, over a Vienna-wide art project depicting them naked and engaged in a sexual act with British Queen Elizabeth II.
The work of “euroPART,†an independent artists’ group, the scenes being displayed on electronic billboards across the Austrian capital were also embarrassing for the government just days before the country assumes the European Union’s rotating presidency Sunday.
And this is “ART”?
Even the Austrian press is outraged. Their story in German is here.
Austrian media reported that the offending images were yanked Wednesday — just a day after they started flashing at motorists — on personal orders of Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel. A woman answering the telephone at the chancellor’s public information department who refused to identify herself said she could not confirm the report.
Leading opposition party figures suggested Schuessel was at least indirectly responsible, saying the group had received about $1.2 million in government subsidies.
Schuessel spokeswoman Heidi Glueck was quoted by the Austria Press Agency as saying the chancellor had been “unaware†of the subject matter being displayed.
Are the Austrian’s embarassed because the art was “POOR and UNORIGINAL” or because the government paid for it?
Certainly, it is in BAD TASTE – signifying NOTHING more than that.
