A planned exhibition by Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami at Louis XIV's Versailles Palace has stirred up a storm of opposition. Two petitions have gathered over 3,000 signatures each but organisers dismiss them as right-wing reactionaries. The organisers of one petition, "Versailles mon amour", refuse to make the names of its 3,500 signatories public because, they claim, "not liking modern art may be disapproved of by future employers". The internet petition, which declares "No to the provocation of modern `art' which respects nothing", was launched by Versailles resident Anne Brassié who hosts a literary broadcast on right-wing radio station Radio Courtoisie. Brassié takes particular exception to two of Murakami's works, My lonesome cowboy, which she describes as "the little man with a pointed penis whose sperm forms a lasso" and Hiropon, which she says portrays "a little woman with big breasts whose milk forms a skipping rope".
A planned exhibition by Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami at Louis XIV's Versailles Palace has stirred up a storm of opposition. Two petitions have gathered over 3,000 signatures each but organisers dismiss them as right-wing reactionaries.
The organisers of one petition, "Versailles mon amour", refuse to make the names of its 3,500 signatories public because, they claim, "not liking modern art may be disapproved of by future employers".
The internet petition, which declares "No to the provocation of modern `art' which respects nothing", was launched by Versailles resident Anne Brassié who hosts a literary broadcast on right-wing radio station Radio Courtoisie.
Brassié takes particular exception to two of Murakami's works, My lonesome cowboy, which she describes as "the little man with a pointed penis whose sperm forms a lasso" and Hiropon, which she says portrays "a little woman with big breasts whose milk forms a skipping rope".
So they are ashamed of being reactionary? Wind power
