Is it Art or is it a weapon?
By Carol Brown
@blitzfrick (2890)
United States
December 18, 2016 9:45am CST
Dec 18, 2016
The television feature show Sunday Morning just ran a segment about Alton Dulaney, a Texas artist who teaches and exhibits at the University of Houston while he works toward an advanced fine arts degree. The purported subject of the segment was Delaney's artistic approach to gift wrapping, but much of the time was devoted to his art, which incorporates firearms he's mounted and decorated with the word "Art".
But this part of the exhibit has run afoul of the "new" Texas law governing concealed carry of weapons on campus. I've put "new" in quotes because the web article was dated in May of this year (2016). The gun was removed from the exhibit, and the campus chief of police was quoted: "No guns are currently allowed on campus. We do not censor art."
What do you think, should this gun have stayed in the exhibit as Art? Or was the university's administration correct to remove it?
Full article at the link.
The Daily Cougar reports that first-year MFA student Alton DuLaney created the piece to make a direct statement on the law, which was passed last summer.
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@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
19 Dec 16
Violence is so common here in the U.S., and I remember it just being part of the cultural tradition in Texas. Maybe they're turning over a new leaf?
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
24 Dec 17
If it is a toy then leave it in, but, it real then remove it. Someone may try and take it.




