Hypocrisy on Display: NYT Defends, Runs Photo of Ants-on-Crucifix Art, But Proudly Refused to Run Muhammad Cartoons

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:18:00 +0000

From London, critic Michael Kimmelman mocked conservative critics of the Smithsonian's sponsorship of an artist's clip showing ants crawling on a crucifix, a picture of which appears in the Times. Yet the same critic in 2006 called the Mohammad cartoons "callous and feeble," and the paper proudly refused to reprint them.

Clay Waters

Critic Michael Kimmelman was granted the front page of Wednesday's Arts section for a snobbish chiding of uncouth American conservatives who helped squelch a video some found sacrilegious, by a featured artist in a Smithsonian gay art exhibit: "In Britain, Separation of Art and State." ("Separation" except for when it comes to actually subsidizing the art, which Britain does.)

MichaelKimmelman

Hypocrisy on Display: NYT Defends, Runs Photo of Ants-on-Crucifix Art, But Proudly Refused to Run Muhammad Cartoons