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| Subject: Censorious statist gallery and OZschwitz dancer poles apart on provocative nude sport Tue Jan 15, 2013 4:26 am | |
| ZAHRA STARDUST says her sport empowers women. Casula Powerhouse sees it differently, and has banned a photograph of the pole dancer from a coming exhibition on women in sport.
The Liverpool arts centre and gallery commissioned Sydney photographer Belinda Mason to take pictures of women in sport for its exhibition Onside, which opens in February, but banned the multi-image piece, which depicts Stardust posing in her pole dancing outfit.
Curator Toni Bailey wrote to Mason that there were ''too many issues for us - being a council-funded public gallery''.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/gallery-and-dancer-poles-apart-on-provocative-nude-sport-20130114-2cpow.html#ixzz2I2DE9qWY
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