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Perhaps you remember when, two months ago, Australian police shut down an exhibit of artist Bill Henson's work — some of which included photographs topless adolescent girls — claiming the work "lacked artistic merit." As Prime Minister Kevin Rudd put it: "Whatever the artistic view of the merits of that sort of stuff - frankly I don't think there are any - just allow kids to be kids." This month, in response to the controversy, Art Monthly Australia published this picture* of then-6-year-old Olympia Nelson, taken by her mother Polixeni Papapetrou, and yesterday, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd erupted, calling it "disgusting," claiming that it is sexualizing children and exploitative because you can see her nipple. Oh, Christ. More »
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