'Duh' people on the arts

COMMENT | Real art has the capacity to make us nervous: Susan Sontag.

If that’s the measure of real art, there is real art and nervous administrators in the National Art Gallery (NAG).

The removal of four of Ahmad Fuad Osman’s works is another illustration why the government, besides helping with funding and infrastructure, should stay away from the arts because I would be surprised if the National Institute of Public Administration (Intan) had a course on the history and critical appreciation of the arts.

Reminds me of a video that has been doing the app rounds for years – a chimp with a spanner monkeying with a car engine for long minutes, trying to get something to work.

Ludicrous beginning – attempting to remove works that had been on exhibit since October 28, 2019. What about the many in the past few months who visited NAG to have their sensibilities refined; instead having their morals outraged and corrupted, their minds blighted, their eyes assaulted by images of PKR president Anwar Ibrahim, a naked man and pigs?

Pigs, okay, I understand, Lucifer’s hell-beast for all Muslims, but Anwar? He has detractors even within his own party, but surely his mug is not that offensive.

As for the image of a naked man on a...