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Bill Henson, visual shock and the democratisation of art

By Mark Bahnisch on October 6, 2008

As no doubt everyone has noticed, there has been a vigorous discussion in comments about the latest Bill Henson brouhouha. I don’t want to comment explicitly on the issues raised by David Marr’s “revelation” that Henson had visited a primary [...]

Posted in Art, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Ethics, Media, Photography, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Alison Croggon, art & artists, art controversies, Art Worlds, arts community, bill henson, Bill Henson controversy, bill henson photography, creative industries, cultural sociology, culture industries, Culture Wars, David Marr, democratisation, History, Howard S. Becker, maya lin, Media, Michael Kammen, moral panics, Peter Garrett, public sphere, Roslyn Oxley9 gallery, Sociology, sociology of culture, vietnam war memorial, Visual Shock | 27 Responses

Journos, Moral Panics and "Facebook Parties"

By dk.au on September 2, 2008

The old days of Press Release Policing are looking decidedly numbered. No longer can you just get some coppers and cameras together on the 6pm news unleashing a bit of the ultraviolence in an effort to scare the kids and [...]

Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Consumerism, Crime, Culture, Disasters, Media, Urbanism | Tagged Capitalism, Channel Warehouse Party, Corey, facebook, gift economies, inthemix, journalism, moral panics, resistance, state, violence | 16 Responses

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